Ya know Hollowfox, we ought to run a thread on it because I have the feeling there are probably a goodly number of PDQ Bach fans around here...............

This is probably going to come out wrong, but I'll try it anyway. On Christmas Eve we always go to Connie and Waynes and I play and we sing a few. This is a bit of a problem though since I end up "in concert." The kids don't know the standard stuff and the more trad but obscure ones aren't known either by anyone! Their family are avid church goers and we always do a Christmas Eve service at their church. In the service they sing some standards, but a lot of them are things lately written that I have never heard and to be truthful, don't really like.

Before somebody jumps my ass here and says that new songs need to be written and blah, blah, blah.........That's fine, but I notice sommething occurring in a lot of the churches that use live music. I've also seen and heard it at Christian home schoolers meetings and conventions and it kinda' drives me nuts. Most of the new music has a real "manufactured" sound about it. Its like they need a clever tune to match the "let's all sing about Jesus" words and it doesn't come off. I mean like they may be "making a joyful noise" but that's about it because the stuff is damn near atonal! I know its just an opinion and I have one asshole and all that, but I gotta' say the stuff stinks. Of course the kids KNOW these turkeys and its depressing to me that they can't hang with the words or tune to even "Silent Night" but they can rip right along on some unresolving, atonal, manufactured piece of crap just fine. Okay.....End of Rant.

Yeah, it didn't come off well I can see. Just forget I said anything. Sorry.

Spaw