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Name: pluto
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: BJ to Beethoven
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Time: 5:43:44 AM
Remote Address: 80.42.96.209
Message ID: 318777
Parent ID: 318737
Thread ID: 318661
Absolutely Keno, but I think I will have to continue to disagree with you on the question of 'mastery'. Not that I have ever been put off any piece of music played by Brian Jones over of it. The pieces you mentioned specifically, are good, well executed, and most enjoyable.
I think your revision of your original thoughts on the sitar and the Indian masters, is probably much closer to the mark. Perhaps though 'played in one way only', isn't quite accurate as there are many styles, but I know what you mean.
I think some Indian players players were probably quite disdainful when they heard their instrument being played in such a basic fashion (Ravi Shankar's online bio reveals that he regarded his instrument as being part of 'god', so perhaps the music produced on it, he regarded as spiritual, a form of worship). I think though, that some would have seen the interest being shown by some young Western kids (at a time when there was interest in all things Eastern) in the sitar, as an opportunity to bring their music to a wider audience, and if you made some money, and got laid as well, then it's all good. I'm sure the pandits regarded the spotty young white herberts playing sitars in much the same way as the Chicago bluesmen initially regarded the same spotty white herberts playing the 'blues' i.e. they were making a god awful noise.......but then the first royalty cheques started dropping through the letterbox, they were getting invited onto tv shows, and careers were revived as their old recordings were selling again, and young whites wanted to hear them. They must have been thinking 'I guess what these kids are playing, ain't so bad'. Maybe I'm too cynical.
Yes, it's always an entertaining little diversion to ponder what might have happened had Brian Jones lived. I think he would have gotten into some interesting music projects, and perhaps guested with the Stones now and then. Of course he was never going to survive much longer after he and the Stones parted company, he was not a well man. Had he lived any length of time, any activity he got involved in would probably have been hampered by ill health.
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