rooneypoo wrote: NEELY wrote:I'm not saying rock is going anywhere but electronic is absolutely the future of music if it isn't already.
As for the "non-musicians" that's suuuuuch an uninformed and fairly uneducated comment. Take Arty who I posted above, listen to his songs, it's all based off of his classical musical trainign on the piano. Listen to the piano/key board, amazing and takes a talented musician to create that kind of music. He then takes that same melody and minipulates it with other intraments. He will then "push play" when he performs live but it's still his own music.
As a guy who has played guitar for 20 years, and who has played in about 10 bands, and played literally 100s of live shows... yeah, definitely not ignorant or uninformed or uneducated when it comes to the matter. If you don't play a musical instrument, you are not a musician. Full stop.
You can be a song writer, or a mixer, or a splicer, or whatever else you want to call it, but you're not a musician. I don't know who Arty is, but if he plays his own instruments, then he's a musician. If he turns a turntable, he's a bunch of interesting things, and he does a bunch of interesting things, but he's not a musician anymore than an anthology compiler is an author or a TV 'clipman' is a writer.
There is a place for electronic, and there is a market for it, and that's cool. They can even be good song writers and composers and whatever else you want to call them. But musicians are people who play musical instruments, just as writers write and painters paint.
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