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Originally Posted by boo boo
I don't know if hatching out a melody that some people will just happen to like makes you talented. Because I could start the most crappy avant garde band you've ever seen, right now, and all I do is fart through a talk box for 50 minutes and I could gain a following. Pitchfork would give me rave reviews and call me the next Glenn Branca.
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Although it seems to have escaped you what you mentioned here is what the beauty of this type of music is. Anybody can do it & use it to put across any message they like. I seem to remember you being equally dismissive of folk music for more or less the same reason.
Talent takes many forms, For you technical proficiency on an instrument takes up a big part of it. For me on the other hand it takes up a bare minimum. That's not to say I don't appreciate it, it means I appreciate it in the context of whats being played. Meaning that if technical proficiency on an instrument it's not needed in playing a song I don't see the point in criticising it for not having it.