mr dave

you're right from the technical standpoint, but using your book example again, it can be argued that the same basic stories are being told with different characters (man vs. nature / man vs. machine / man vs. self / etc.)

the same applies to pretty much all song based music. the notes and styles might be different but the underlying formulas remain.

you could try breaking free from that and playing improv on purpose for records but Ornette Coleman already beat us all to that one 55 years ago.

while there's certainly more people who chose to listen to the 'weird' stuff on purpose now rather than to be content to simply hear it within some other form of media, it doesn't change the fact that it's pretty much all been done before in one way or another.

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