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I kept on expecting Alan Funt to appear. If this guy had recorded on Paramount -- especially if they had put this 15 minute piece out on a set of 2-78s, then Amanda Petrusich's cult of collectors would be going apesh-t over it and fighting to bid tens of thousands of dollars on it. I'm unimpressed with this and am unimpressed with most of what her cult is overbidding for. (Did you really listen to ALL 15 minutes of that crap????) Mike Biel [log in to unmask] ------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Records Ruin the Landscape From: Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, September 21, 2014 7:56 am To: [log in to unmask] Let's be clear, this is the "artiste" discussed in the essay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6VjHYjXEM If 15 minutes of the same 3 chords with often out of tune humming along is your thing, then have at it. Many people play acoustic guitar into a portable home recorder. Very few of those recordings are worth hearing. Almost none of them are worth canonized as "undiscovered gold." I understand the frustration with modern commercialized popular music, but the modern impulse (often by younger writers with little historical perspective, writers "born digital" and raised on digital pop music glop) to "discover" performers from what is glorified as a "wonderful past," many of whom don't really deserve to be canonized, is annoying. It seems to be an academic, navel-gazing pursuit. And, it smacks of ignorance, of not listening to enough commercially-released music from the same time periods. That sort of listening will often reveal that there were many excellent examples in the selected genre, musicians who could actually play and thus make commercially viable recordings. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "WS" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 6:35 PM Subject: [ARSCLIST] Records Ruin the Landscape > The link below is an excerpt (published in WIRE magazine) from David Grubb's > upcoming book called "Records Ruin The Landscape". > > > > I thought it might be of interest to some ARSCLIST members, as it explores > the implications of recorded material from an earlier era that only finds an > audience much later than it was created. > > > > http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read_extract-from-david-gr > ubbs_records-ruin-the-landscape > > > >