Mr. Sanchez:

Feel free to exclude me from my generalization if it makes you feel 
better.  My point was to express my experiences with music fans - just 
as plenty of others did before me.

This list seems to spawn discussions of a wide variety of musical styles 
even though its' purportedly a power-pop list - that's because this 
group of power-pop fans listen to and enjoy music beyond the focus of 
power-pop.  They have even gone so far as to comment on the positive 
aspects of music that they don't like.  These fans seem more educated 
than most music fans who seem to follow a "trend du jour" or have 
stopped listening to anything new when they reached 25 or 30 unless it's 
a new album by an artist that they already like (vast generalization, I 
know).

If you felt that my post was meant to be self-serving, then either you 
read it wrong or I wrote it wrong.  If the latter is true - sorry.

Ira
> 
> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:31:10 -0800
> From: ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: Is Rap music?
> Message-ID: <40291554.643A9759@mcn.net>
> 
> hope you didn't strain your arm, while patting yourself on the
> back...????!!!!!!
> 
> Ira Rosen wrote:
> 
> 
>>In my experience, power-pop fans like a particular structure and music
>>that adheres to it.  They also seem to understand music better than most
>>popular music fans, and will readily admit that music/musicianship is
>>good/high quality even if it doesn't adhere to their personal taste
>>constraints.
>>
>>Ira
> 
> 
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