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| From | synthhtnys@comcast.net |
| Subject | Re: Changing it when they already had it right. |
| Date | Fri, 04 May 2007 23:00:06 +0000 |
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*Now that is just F'ing spot on!
You nailed it.
On a slightly side note blaming synths for all the ills of modern music is a weak argument.
I think what it is most people don't like about them isn't the synths at all, but the quantisizing done in a sequencing environment... which makes the music rigid and robotic.
I can't count how many times people I know who get screechy over hating synths will point out a song they love which is filled to the brim with synths, but they didn't recognize them as such because it didn't sound "robotic"
> Well...aside from the decades-long gaps between albums to create such
> middling, mediocre sludge, Boston's kryptonite was the very thing that Tom
> Scholz spent countless interviews chest-beating over: no synths or
> mechanical recording equipment on any of the albums. He went from proudly
> trumpeting the band's organic sound on record to becoming this stodgy old
> analog fart whose releases became more and more dated sounding the farther
> away from 2" tape the industry got.
> We get it, Tom. You don't like drum machines and prefer a B3 over a DX7.
> Now, how about writing some good songs to show off the format? Man, if
> Kravitz can do it, why can't you?
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