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Thread #65352   Message #1076434
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
19-Dec-03 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: A Plague of Songwriters?
Subject: RE: A Plague of Songwriters?
Many years ago "electronic music" required lots of expensive equipment to produce - an early example being the Dr Who TV theme. Then talented people like Walter Carlos (Switched On Bach) were able to get their hands on some equipment. Nowadays, every teenager has a sound card and S/W in his PC. Have "standards" improved or declined? Back in the 1950-60's, nearly every teenager who wnated got his hands on an electric guitar, and look at what happend to "Real Music" - Is The Beatle's Music shite? - no wait - that's another thread!... :-)

A certain notorius Aussie put together a brilliant TV series on Music in Australia which was shown on SBS. He even got an Award for it.

He showed one night his "contribution" to the ABC TV late night all night Music Program called "Rage". He was getting annoyed at the amount of crap he thought they were showing. He said, "My DOG could make a better video clip than some of that crap"!!!!

So he strapped a camera to the head of his little beagle sized friend and let him wander around the beach. Then he got hold of a free music looping program, and pumped out - in his words - "some crap" and hacked it together and sent it off to "Rage" - they played it at 3 am in the morning! He thought it was a great joke!

Of course the guy IS talented musically....    isn't he?

Robin