Hey! I've gone along with your postings, while you're the one who complains about not enough members posting.
If you're trying to define me with your interest in "classical music",
I can only say that classical music is not only an immense historic tradition, sheet music and all,
what is now seen as classical music can be anything that's been popular, not just what's seen as antiquity.
I just made two new threads, one in classical music and one in progressive rock, requesting a new forum.
I'm calling it "symphonic-electric", seeing so many memorized electric guitar versions of written classical music.
You've accented "sneering or snobbish" way, and you're doing it again with me, accenting "drugs".
I don't write about drugs. I have to mention the word because it's a big part of North American society.
It's in movies, TV shows, and here in Welland, I'm smelling pot in the air even when I walk down the middle of a street at night.
One of my constant lines to use when I'm posting in YouTube about American politics,
is that new American statistics show that 90% of the people in Ohio have used crystal meth.
For sure, that is using drugs as a statistic, but as I do here, I'm not talking about them or using them to be entertaining,
not as a user, but as a showman, and not as a writer trying to sell, and not as a typist making click-bait.
If you want to talk about classical music I am more than able to hold my own,
and as a player, not as a composer or recording artist or video content provider,
I know I could jam along with Frederik Magle and hopefully, inspire him as we make music.
That's my only disappointment with Magle.dk, it's so far away, over the ocean.
TINKICKER, with a lead guitarist who used to post here regularly, are also from Denmark.
He knew Frederik Magle from the music business when they were younger.
He's offered a place for me to stay if I ever was able to visit Denmark.
That's a happy thought, but I know that's all it is.
TINKICKER might not be reproducing already written classical sheet music,
but having met Frederik Magle is an even stronger connection for me.
He even mailed me a copy of their new CD, something I play from time to time.
I remember you typing that you can improvise while your husband can't.
I see that as being the same way here, on these music forums owned by a musician.
Just like playing that first note without knowing where it's going to go until you get playing,
you should realize the same thing can happen with font.
A new member, and you seem to be looking for them yourself,
said two replies ago that what he likes about me is how I can take a conversation,
and turn it into something else, being more informative and widening his knowledge of his world.
I always say I type a lot, and the weight of my font shouldn't make you feel like you have to type a lot.
That's what my life is like for me. I can talk about music and equipment and recording in a way that enchants others,
just like I can sing to imitate or sing songs like other singers would sing them,
when, during those quiet moments on the road, traveling between gigs or waiting backstage,
I'm the entertainer, the musician other musicians turn to when they need some inspiration,
or proof of what a human being, a Watt, a Son of the Gael, can do when left alone,
even if everyone else just goes back to being and doing the same old thing.
If there is a big difference between us that might make what I say irrelevant to you,
I'll use your comment "it encourages people to collect CDs", as an example.
How on topic is that, if I'm quoting you?
Here, VHS cassettes, CDs and DVDs are no longer bought and sold even in buy and sell stores.
Owners can't give them all away to others who collect them.
Almost everyone has a hand-held device, some watching movies on those in coffee shops, etc,
and almost everyone is streaming online or watching anything they want to watch on Netflix.
No doubt, the instruments and electronics that get left out beside the curb wouldn't be like that where you live.
The Region Waste Disposal has a program of retail stores and schools who sign up to receive them,
as a form of recycling.
If I was going to be sneering and snobby at all, it would be talking about the wealth of the Niagara Peninsula,
the site of the first commerical hydro generation in the world,
in a land that didn't get bombed to the ground in the First and Second World War.
If it means less lead guitar talk in any classical forum or thread here,
I would think you would support my idea for a new forum,
especially if I'm thinking, as a long time member, that it might attract new members and more comments.
I log in here every time I'm on this computer, and if I'm not looking around or replying,
I minimize it, sometimes for hours, just to pump up the stats for the admin and Mr. Magle.
That's like me volunteering to pay a cover charge to see another band,
when everyone is so happy I'm there they are trying to hustle me in and take me backstage.
I don't like that kind of rarefied air, as to my tastes and as my actions,
because the air is too thin up there and I like to be a part of humanity,
not just dancing with the stars. That's an awe-full way to live,
and just because I'm wandering doesn't mean I'm lost.
I hope this helps you tighten you bow for another round at me.
I'm also saving my ideas about the evolution of the human musical mind,
how classical music such as Beethoven and Mozart is being played by young electronic musicians,
from memory, having that feel and expansive technique, with added modern technology,
just like how blues and rock music began with the same three-chord progression,
from everyone thinking they can sing like Elvis back then, to everyone thinking they can play virtuoso solos now.
yeah... I'm saving that for a "symphonic-electric" discussion,
along with my personal output about starting to do that in 1970.
I'm calling it "symphonic-electric" to be specific, but it is part of "A New Way Forward".
aah... the fontitude after clicking "save"...