Don Pearce wrote:

Oh, I'm interested in emotional involvement, but any emotions I feel
at a concert, or when listening to reproduced music, are entirely my
own. I don't presume to be inside the heads of those that are
creating the music, and I don't see how they can be inside mine.

The music is designed to stimulate emotional responses and the
musicians do their best to convey that.

Good for them. Makes no difference to me. My emotional response will still
be mine, regardless of what the composer intended, or the musician tried to
convey (or even what the improvising musician is feeling as he plays).


So you are quite happy to see the audience giggling during a sad song?
I think you need to be a bit more connected than that.

My point is that, to play at your best, you have to play for yourself. The
musician knows better than anyone when he's in the groove - direct,
instantaneous feedback.


No, I've been round the circle once - I'm not up for another circuit.

I disagree with the notion that putting together a system with totally
different aspirations is an unhelpful paradigm. The aim isn't audiophonic
perfection for its own sake, but some sort of emotional response to music.
The 'accuracy' approach is one that people use to attain the said response,
and it works for many. However, it should be pretty obvious that, if Keith
gets the emotional thing he's after from his kit, then it follows that the
accuracy approach cannot be the only one.


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Wally
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