Traders Who Like Music

[oldtime]

Quote from ElectricSavant:

So Rock N' Roll is just like the "Theory of Evolution"? (unknown origin)

no, rock and roll is largely accepted as white southern musicians being influenced by black southern musicians. Same thing except for the hotels they could stay in and the record deals they could get.

no one seems to know for sure about Blues, because it doesn't seem to exist anywhere else in the world and apparently started in the Mississippi delta. So surely it had some African influence, but if you go back to Africa you can't find it.

So therefore it must also have some American influence.

I think the whole thing gets a little ethnocentric when nobody can admit these people must have just invented it on their own.

hey, i could talk forever but forex is about ready to open so I gotta go, good talking to you

 

[Random.Capital]

Do you ever listen to music when you are trading?[/B]

Velvet Underground.

Sonic Youth.

Kraftwerk.

New Order.

Pre-Bitches Brew Miles Davis.

Pre-Windows 95 Rolling Stones.

Lots of good stuff out there.

 

[ElectricSavant]

Zydaco? (I spelled that incorrectly)..oh wait thats a French thingy...

Long Live the Rolling Stones

ES

Quote from oldtime:

no, rock and roll is largely accepted as white southern musicians being influenced by black southern musicians. Same thing except for the hotels they could stay in and the record deals they could get.

no one seems to know for sure about Blues, because it doesn't seem to exist anywhere else in the world and apparently started in the Mississippi delta. So surely it had some African influence, but if you go back to Africa you can't find it.

So therefore it must also have some American influence.

I think the whole thing gets a little ethnocentric when nobody can admit these people must have just invented it on their own.

hey, i could talk forever but forex is about ready to open so I gotta go, good talking to you

 

[budcampbell]

Quote from oldtime:

why did you delete that cheese? That's where jazz comes from my friend. In the old days down south, negroes were expected to play music for their white folk. When Gershwin came along through sheet music and the early recordings, the white women would ask the black musicians if they could play it. Of course they said yes. If you are a blues musician and you try to play a straight song which uses the cycle of fifths instead of the I IV V changes blues uses you will make a lot of mistakes and slide up or down to the right note (usually up) and that's where jazz came from.

Black blues muscians trying to play Gershwin for white folks. And Gershwin returns the favor many times by incorporating Blues into his tunes.

if you want to get into what the music was like before jazz check out dixieland.

we're still not sure about blues. No one knows for sure where it came from. Some say Mali, but there is no blues in Mali.

But you take a musician from Mali and ask him to play Gershwin and it will come out jazz.

This is a false statement. Jazz was the great equalizer. Where else could one find members of both races in an old jazz band.

For your brain try this:

Zoot Allures by Frank Zappa
brilliant arrangement by Zappa, but the vocals are right up your ally.

 

[jficquette]

Anyone ever stop and wonder why humans are draw to music to begin with??

My guess is the beat mimics the sounds heard in the womb which have a natural calming effect to the subconscious.

 

[Random.Capital]

I read somewhere that the Billboard charts were racially integrated - until the Beatles came along and gave the world "white" rock and roll.

No idea if it's true, have never checked, because if it isn't, it should be.

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from jficquette:

Anyone ever stop and wonder why humans are draw to music to begin with??

It helps dudes get laid, would be my guess.

 

[Random.Capital]

Quote from actionzip54:

Hans Zimmer "Time"

Meh, didn't do much for me, too derivative, like a cross between old Vangelis and Enya on too many qualudes.

But each to their own - if it floats your boat, it floats your boat!

 

[budcampbell]

Quote from Random.Capital:

I read somewhere that the Billboard charts were racially integrated - until the Beatles came along and gave the world "white" rock and roll.

No idea if it's true, have never checked, because if it isn't, it should be.

All the British Rockers credit "the black man's blues" as their greatest influence.

 

[Random.Capital]

From a NYT review of "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ’n’ Roll” ...

While Wald never says in so many words that the Beatles destroyed rock ’n’ roll, he does take a stance several degrees removed from standard-issue Beatles worship. He suggests that their ambitious later work, widely hailed as a step forward for rock, instead helped turn it from a triumphantly mongrel dance music that smashed racial barriers into a rhythmically inert art music made mostly by and for white people.

I'm just sharing, not claiming...