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Jul 19
Slippery even when it’s dry
Posted by: Michael R. Willow in 2009, Blog, Satire, Fiction, Parody
Brit pop activist
Some people start their music career without proper knowledge of music. Thus we have famous singers who don’t know how to sing, guitar players who don’t know how to play the guitar or sometimes use an out of tune guitar.
There are a lot of examples and I promise to avoid naming names. I don’t want to offend the fans of the band Kings of Leon who have copied the “Silent All These Years” by Tori Amos in their song “The Bucket”… what an inspiration. I would not say anything about Snow Patrol who are the U2 of the future and they took up music lessons after they started their career because they wanted to improve their technical, composition and performance skills. I will not say anything about all the new brit pop, cockney accent bands who sound like Oasis, Pulp and the Beatles, who I don’t personally like because I believe that Tina Turner and Michael Jackson did better than them.
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May 14
Art n toilet…
Posted by: Michael R. Willow in 2009, Art Uber Alles, Blog, Satire, Fiction, Parody
Euro pics (2009)
The owner of this horn-shaped men’s toilet (in a pub in Freibourg – Germany) has received complaints by insulted musician customers. To my mind this is an impressive work of art that could be appropriate for a modern art exhibition or Biennale but it seems like it is deemed as an insult by some musicians. However, I as a musician opposed to discrimination against artists, find it really interesting because obviously the designer?s intent was not to provoke or insult.
I would not be mistaken to assume that those who complained were classical musicians, who are known for their “purism”. I remember my old classical guitar teacher who used to tell me: “What are you listening to? David Bowie and Guns n Roses? These are just worthless little songs” and “The term classical music is incorrect, it should be called serious music!”. As if the folk, jazz, rock etc were non-serious, worthless music…. Posted: 14 May 2009. Continue reading »
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Mar 30
“I want some T.A.R.P”
Posted by: bsm in 2009, Blog, Satire, Fiction, ParodyT.A.R.P. (Troubled Asset Relief Program) is a US government rescue plan for “struggling” financial institutions and singer songwriter Bill Zucker has not just written another parody song criticizing the current economic situation; he wants to make a difference.
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