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Fri, 02 March 2007 13:33

TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007

Senior Member

We've had this discussion here before, but rather than go over it all again
I suggest you all rent Scratch and watch it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0143861/

Having been a casual musician all of my life, at 17 I saw a guitar player--at
one of the low points in his career--named Buddy Guy. Probably 2-3 years
before 'Damn Right I Got the Blues' came out. I might as well have been nailed
to the floor I was so blown away. That moment I decided 'I want to do THAT.'
So began what is now almost 20 years of spending tens of thousands of dollars
and hours playing, writing, recording, writing about and listening to music.
They have not always been good times, not by a long stretch, but at this
point in my life I can imagine it without music about as much as I can imagine
a life without water. Music has gotten me jobs, gotten me laid, introduced
me to new people, supported the material needs of my life for a year in Europe,
and a few weeks ago let me shock and awe my entire office at a karaoke party
where I sang 'Wonderwall' to a bunch of finance geeks. All because I went
to a Buddy Guy show because I had read Eric Clapton liked him.

If you rent Scratch you find out that a generation of DJ's saw Grandmaster
Flash play Rockit with Herbie Hancock on the Grammy's in 1985 and said to
themselves 'I want to do THAT' just like I did when I saw Buddy Guy. A disproportionate
number, though not all, were young, urban, and black. Watching Scratch will
prove to anyone willing to take an honest view that they have pursued music
with at least as much passion, dedication, and inspiration as I have. To
see that mocked and maligned by people who supposedly love music themselves
is simply repulsive, especially when it's obvious that they don't listen
to it. Having other people make hip hop nether costs you a dime or makes
your day any less pleasant.

And if it's so simple and uncreative, I once again invite anyone over to
my house to show me how to scratch and beat mix better on the pair of lovely
Technics 1200s that sit next to my Danelectro bass and my Les Paul gold top.
I didn't get any takers last time.

TCB

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		Hip hop By: TCB on Fri, 02 March 2007 13:33
		Re: Hip hop By: Neil on Fri, 02 March 2007 14:05
		Re: Hip hop By: dc[3] on Fri, 02 March 2007 14:17
		Re: Hip hop By: excelav on Fri, 02 March 2007 15:40
		Re: Hip hop By: DC on Fri, 02 March 2007 16:12
		Re: Hip hop By: LaMont on Fri, 02 March 2007 22:10
		Re: Hip hop By: LaMont on Fri, 02 March 2007 22:32
		Re: Hip hop By: Deej [4] on Fri, 02 March 2007 15:11
		Re: Hip hop By: Bill Lorentzen on Sat, 03 March 2007 14:59
		Re: Hip hop By: Doug Wellington on Fri, 02 March 2007 20:29
		Re: Hip hop By: TCB on Fri, 02 March 2007 22:20
		Re: Hip hop By: Doug Wellington on Fri, 02 March 2007 23:08
		Re: Hip hop By: Bill Lorentzen on Sat, 03 March 2007 09:16
		Re: Hip hop By: Doug Wellington on Sat, 03 March 2007 11:05
		Re: Hip hop By: dc[3] on Sat, 03 March 2007 12:22
		Re: Hip hop By: Bill Lorentzen on Sat, 03 March 2007 14:54
		Re: Hip hop By: Deej [4] on Sat, 03 March 2007 16:38
		Re: Hip hop By: dc[3] on Sat, 03 March 2007 18:18
		Re: Hip hop By: DC on Sat, 03 March 2007 18:23
		Re: Hip hop By: Deej [4] on Sat, 03 March 2007 22:38
		Re: Hip hop By: Sarah on Sat, 03 March 2007 18:28
		Re: Hip hop By: dc[3] on Sat, 03 March 2007 20:33
		Re: Hip hop By: Sarah on Sat, 03 March 2007 19:51
		Re: Hip hop By: Deej [4] on Sun, 04 March 2007 00:15
		Re: Hip hop By: Bill Lorentzen on Sun, 04 March 2007 09:03

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