Re: Shibboleth / Wrong Notes / Tom Chewing Glass / (TV) tom on, uh, television

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <BAY0-SMTP08AAB096F6A27EC26BAD12A5420@phx.gbl>, BlackMonk 
<BlackMonk@email.msn.com> writes
> Fair point, a listener can't have an opinion on something until after 
> it's performed. Maybe a better way of putting it is that the listener 
> would know how something should have sounded. --------------

Or rather how the listener would have *preferred it* to sound, based on 
their own preferences/love of previous work/prejudices. (famous Woody 
Allen bit - something like, "Why don't you make more films like the 
early ones, the funny ones were better?")

Shameful admission: all through my teens I wouldn't listen to any "rock" 
record that had keyboards on it because I thought they had no place in 
rock music (I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now). What a 
snob I was although, mind you, it did mean that I never had to suffer 
through an Emerson lake and Palmer record.
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