The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65111   Message #1069632
Posted By: GUEST,Helen
10-Dec-03 - 03:41 PM
Thread Name: Jim Moray....
Subject: RE: Jim Moray....
It is my opinion that even aside from the electronic stuff, Jim is a fantastic musician. Properly, really, inferiority-complex-generatingly-good. I think that anyone who can come up with arrangements like he does, however contraversial, deserves considerable credit. And just because they don't fit into people's interpretation of what is 'usual' doesn't mean they are not relevant, or are bad. OK, they might shock your ears if you're unused to people doing something different, but then, so do the tunings of, say, Javanese Gamelan, when first heard by the western ear. So do many modern classical compositions. So did composers such as Shostakovich and Vivaldi, in their day. Just because something is different to what you're used to, it isn't necessarily wrong.

For another thing, this way of rather publicly slagging someone off over the internet is a bit low, isn't it? It's like walking on stage during someone's gig and insulting them in front of their entire audience, their family, their next door neighbours and their dog. I bet none of you would dare do that.