thierry
pat radioYou know, when you think about it, practically every symphony orchestra is a cover band, and nobody busts their chops about it.
epilonious@patradio I feel like the greatest lie technology ever told us was "Hey, these people that are paid to sing and play instruments in your music hall/movie-theatre/bar/gathering-space are an expensive, fiddly, fussy, pain in the ass"
Hence all the faff over recordings, then synthetic music, and now AI music. Seems to be every other generation now.
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
@patradio facts. Classical, jazz, and blues. They all play each other’s music. It’s just art.
Emma Liv@markwyner @patradio Same with a lot of the pop classics from the mid 20th century. Not to mention folk music, just, in general.
The default assumption that every artist or band is playing wholly original compositions is a pretty modern idea.
Whitney McNamara@markwyner @patradio Also: the idea that popular musicians should be performers AND songwriters is a very recent idea.
They're related, but not necessarily overlapping, skills.
@whitneymcn Yep. The book "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock and Roll" opened my eyes about pop music. Before records, sheet music was how you made money off of published songs. And before the 60s singer-songwriter era, there would often be competing versions of the same song on the charts by different artists. I sort of wish we had more of that now.
James 🦉 #FBPE 🇪🇺@patradio "The Beathovens"
Taya Nielsen@patradio well, it’s not like the original authors can stop them.
Dr. Sobek