The best artist who ever lived?

[teddy]

I suppose it would have to be Bach. He had a majesty about his music which enthralls me.

teddy

[John Watt]

Actually, after all this time away, I have a new answer.
There truly is the greatest artist of all time.
In The Holy King James Bible, after mankind is disenfranchised from the Garden of Eden,
our heavenly father imparted three talents to help humanity cope with life on earth.
He names who received the knowledge of farming and wood-working,
and he lists Jubal as the first musician on earth. Yeah, no writing or painting.
He is the host of our musicality.
So as the oldest named musician in human history, hosting all of mankind throughout time,
there can't be too much argument.

I think Corno Dolce's father jammed with him.

[teddy]

Good post John. I would never have thought of that

teddy

[JHC]

Just being a pain again but the thread title 'The best artist who ever lived' surly they all lived a complete waste of a word no wonder countries are going broked

[John Watt]

I found a Bible last night, and looked up the Genesis origin of Jubal's story.
It moved me again, something I didn't remember, specifying that he played flute and organ.
I'm still trying to think that through. Some little voice tells me that merely thinking won't be enough.

Forget countries. I'm disappointed in Rolling Stone, the 100 best of anythings being a big part of their online.
www.rollingstone.com/ I'm looking at that more for investigative journalism about American finances.

[JHC]

@John Watt He played the organ ??? a mouth organ?

[John Watt]

I looked at my Scottish Bible. It said harp and organ. That's true.

I'm not atwitter. Never have been.

[JHC]

Unless it is on wiki treat it as guess work tic

[John Watt]

What I've seen on Wikipedia contradicts my Canadian reality, sometimes.
I put a new thread in the organ sections, trying to get some more ideas about this.

[JHC]

Do you mean that Wiki can't be relied on

[Chi_townPhilly]

I'm disappointed in Rolling Stone...

Part of the maturation process.

The day "Rolling Stone" stops seeming cool concludes another chapter in an individual's Bildungsroman.

(It's said that a stanza of Billy Joel's "It's Still Rock & Roll to Me" was written with "Rolling Stone" in mind...

It doesn't matter what they say in the papers
'Cause it's always been the same old scene-
There's a new band in town
But you can't catch the sound
From a story in a magazine...
Aimed at your average teen.)

[John Watt]

I'm soaking up some, uh, whatever lengthy Teutonic word describes moods of mental maturation, from this thread. For some reason it reminds me of George Oliver, a local singer who started in rock bands but became r'n'b, doing splits onstage, still doing them now. He's got lots on Youtube too. He not only takes me back to the psychedelic sixties when he was the lead singer of Mandala, but he's out there right now singing and dancing in his late sixties. Is it "shaw-zen-freud" that I'm feeling?
Maybe I'm spending too much time with a "broad-brick'd moon lick'd g'nicht.