Boris who?    You were the one who said you didn't recognize some of the current pop stars.    I venture to say more people will recognize Rihanna than Boris.   I recognize her--and don't even ever listen to her.

Sorry, Boris doesn't carry much clout.   The fact he loves sythesizer is not tremendously significant. In the words of my favorite musical analyst, Shania Twain:   "That don't impress me much."

So there may well be other bands which heavily rely on synthesizer.   Fine.   Just please make that plain and I will not be attending their gigs.    There is a wealth of wonderful stuff on YouTube--mostly the older stuff.    But there is also a huge amount of dross--most of which seems to include synthesizers, it seems.


Sure, synthesizers are here to stay.   More's the pity. And they're "useful"--especially in saving money by not hiring the real thing.

"My brother's band..."

QED

As far as I'm concerned, if a zydeco band does not have an accordion but uses a synthesizer instead, it's an ersatz zydeco band. And I'm not alone. Again:   "Ain't Nothin' Like The Real Thing".


By the way, as I said earlier, your reading skills need some work.    I never said said folk bands don't use sythesizers. I said the increasing use of them is a shame.

And as I said, they now plague Irish and pop music.    Perhaps that's just peachy with you. Not with me.

As I noted, I'm a traditionalist. You're not. Different strokes.....