KNOW your art. .. .mini rant.

[CypherOne]

okay, good point. I am familiar with at least some of their stuff, plus I saw Bob on the Brits. Admittedly that's probably not enough expossure to sum up their entire output and deem them as shite, but it was enough to make me feel safe that I wasn't missing much.

[hvaring]

this is why dogs don't respect people, because the people don't respect the dogs because they don't know who garth brooks is.

Ehr ... who is Garth Brooks?

[CypherOne]

woof!

[stefancrs]

Yep, as Cron says, its more to do with the phrase.

So much great stuff out there that is doomed never to be heard because it was "before my time". I mean, if that principle applied to visual art then the car boot sales would be choc full of Picasso's and Rembrandts!

They are. It's just that they are full with great but not billboard/top20/hitlist art. Or are you only into visual arts equavilent to radio hits?

Most people know of lots of old music. But unless it fits their actual interest in music, it will be hits that they know of.

[spaceman]

Breaking out of another thread, how crap is it when you here people say "Oh THAT band/musician/song?, Well I wouldn't know, it was before my time".

I mean, this is ok for the run of the mill office worker to spout as a reason for ignorance, but musicans? No.

Basically, these people need to go look up the dictionary definition of the word 'record'.

but what if it is before your time?
if you never heard it how can you judge it?

[CypherOne]

which is why hits are hits

[farlukar]

[opiadream]

it's refreshing to see someone else here has a taste for the classics

[vurt]

i use to date his sister

[advaya]

n. rec·ord (rek erd)

An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.

Something on which such an account is based.
Something that records: a fossil record.

Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved: the coldest day on record.
The known history of performance, activities, or achievement: your academic record; hampered by a police record.

An unsurpassed measurement: a world record in weightlifting; a record for cold weather.
Computer Science.

A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit.
Law.

An account officially written and preserved as evidence or testimony.

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Wow! It's all so clear to me now...

I can now (with confidence) hit that ominous little button on my four-track that has the little red dot on it...

I make art... How come nobody knows about me???

[FaX]

Reminds of the the joke -

Q:How many DaDa-ist's does it take to change a light bulb ?


A:FISH

[Sicklecell666]

[Meffy]

... whaddayaMEAN you've never heard of Hot Tuna?!?!

[Stupid American Pig]

Breaking out of another thread, how crap is it when you here people say "Oh THAT band/musician/song?, Well I wouldn't know, it was before my time".

I mean, this is ok for the run of the mill office worker to spout as a reason for ignorance, but musicans? No.

Basically, these people need to go look up the dictionary definition of the word 'record'.

Taking that stance, couldnt it be argued that you should learn your music theory since it pertains to yer "art"? I know you were very against learning music theory in a previous thread..



Im just messing with ya, but seriously, there is so much music out there its hard to keep up.

[Manc Chris]

Taking that stance, couldnt it be argued that you should learn your music theory since it pertains to yer "art"? I know you were very against learning music theory in a previous thread..

Nah, I mean, LS Lowry never learned to draw did he?