Reply to: Poetry

[minestrone]

Buddy Rich is a prime example of jazz musician gone wrong...

The bus tapes are probably not safe for work

[minestrone]

THe worst thing about jazz is the musicians taking ownership of certain musical constructs. "that's a jazz chord" or "jazz triplets". They would like you to believe that Mozart learned to play piano after listening to a John Coltraine record.

[Cliphead]

Dixieland jazz is like acid in the ears, brutal stuff.

Agreed but easy to play and lucrative

[minestrone]

Dixieland jazz is like acid in the ears, brutal stuff.

[Cliphead]

Agreed, and while I loathe it as a genre, trad jazz (Dixieland?) is worlds apart from modern jazz, which, as far as I can tell, is just five guys each playing a different tune that they just made up.

I hate jazz but was persuaded to play in a trad band (yep, red shirt and sequined waistcoat). Made a fckin fortune playing to middle class audiences. Still don't like it but easy to play and an easy buck. What would you prefer, £500 a day or £500 for two hours?

[minestrone]

Jazz isn't a genre, it's an arrangement. you can take any old tune and jazz it up.

And poetry, well if it strikes a chord it's great, if not it's sh 1 te. Some people get lots of chords struck , like alf, some, not so many.


who cannot be moved to tears by this masterpiece by Rudyard Optimist

Minny was a moaning twat
he moaned from 6 till 9
He whinged about bad poetry
The fckng philistine

Meter is an English construct,
it makes our verse go well,
but when you break it,
the poem sounds like hell.

[EternalOptimist]

Jazz isn't a genre, it's an arrangement. you can take any old tune and jazz it up.

And poetry, well if it strikes a chord it's great, if not it's sh 1 te. Some people get lots of chords struck , like alf, some, not so many.


who cannot be moved to tears by this masterpiece by Rudyard Optimist

Minny was a moaning twat
he moaned from 6 till 9
He whinged about bad poetry
The fckng philistine

[minestrone]

Which is fine….actually it was only a couple of teachers that had this attitude; one even thought of himself as the Robin Williams character from dead poets society, standing on desks, trying to convince us to start an after school poetry club, etc…

Williams in 'Best Dad in the World' is fantastic. He the teaches poetry in that film.

[doodab]

Which is fine….actually it was only a couple of teachers that had this attitude; one even thought of himself as the Robin Williams character from dead poets society, standing on desks, trying to convince us to start an after school poetry club, etc…

They all think like that but only some of them act out.

[minestrone]

I have a coo
it likes to make a moo


endless drivel, endlessly.

[sal626]

Which is fine….actually it was only a couple of teachers that had this attitude; one even thought of himself as the Robin Williams character from dead poets society, standing on desks, trying to convince us to start an after school poetry club, etc…

[Wodewick]

Watched a program where Paul Simon decribed the chord choices for Graceland, truly mind blowing stuff.

I watched a program where Noddy Holder described the writing process for such classics as "Cum on feel the Noize" and "Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitsssss CHRIIIIIIIIIISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS" even more mind blowing!!

[doodab]

I don’t mind some poetry, but at school I couldn’t stand teachers telling me how great a particular poem is. I get that you like it…why do I have to like it?

You don't have to like it, you have to understand what supposedly makes it great.

[minestrone]

Watched a program where Paul Simon decribed the chord choices for Graceland, truly mind blowing stuff.

[sal626]

I don’t mind some poetry, but at school I couldn’t stand teachers telling me how great a particular poem is. I get that you like it…why do I have to like it?