[Ron Lindeboom]

Music is a HIGHLY subjective experience, not one that is objective.

You don’t have to justify your contempt for opera, that is your prerogative. I never liked it either until I got to see some of the great operatic singers perform live. It is still not my favorite music, by a long shot, but I can appreciate it.

But like you, I will take Van Morrison over Luciano Pavarotti every time. ;o)

But…does that say that Van’s talent is greater than Luciano’s? Some would argue that it does — me, I wouldn’t.

The Rolling Stones have been too boring to talk about for a l-o-n-g time. I quit at Sticky Fingers. When Exile on Main Street had Happy and Tumbling Dice as the only two great songs, I gave away my copy and haven’t found one worth buying since.

But hey, I have the new Beatles Mono boxed set, so that must count for something, eh?

;o)

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

I am a huge fan of *most every* kind of music, Herb. But I also take music as a spiritual journey/connection, and so I have limits to what I want to put into my cranium. That offends some people but that is okay, as I said that I also have very bizarre and eclectic tastes that are hardly mainstream in many instances.

I love Sarah Vaughn and many of the old jazz divas. I like many of the newer torch singers, as well.

I love SOME forms of opera and am a huge fan of classical music and also most every other form of music except hip hop and rap — it’s just not my thing. I can appreciate certain forms of metal and hardcore, and I like much of the new indie music that is out today.

I can do without Brittney and Christina or Mariah, am not big on Garth Brooks or any of the “cookie cutter country” stars that all look and sound the same.

Corporate music of any shape, size or description is not my cup of tea.

I tend to the eclectic and the melodic. The bigger the melodies and harmonies, the more I am probably going to like it.

But there are just some people that I do not want to listen to. It is less a style thing than a person thing.

After all, I even have a few hip hop and rap artists that I will listen to, and it is my least likely musical form.

I just don’t really like glorifying violence against women or other human beings and so the people that tend to the gangster thing and the mafia thing, etc., are not likely to score high on my list of people that I am going to “grant my rapidly turning time clock” to burning up its limited minutes, thank you.

But again, that’s just me. Others live in a different world and that’s what makes people so interesting.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Ron Lindeboom]

I love Big Band music and have many CDs of it in my collection. I even got the chance to meet and hang out with Harry James before he died. Tres cool.

If I am forced to listen to crooners, I will take Mel Torme because of his ability to scat. I think that Deano is boring and no amount of alcohol will fix that opinion.

Regarding your reference to college and recreational substances, etc., I must confess that I was like the erstwhile President Clinton, who admitted that he once smoked pot but “didn’t inhale.” Me, I used to mess around as he did but if the truth be told, I didn’t “exhale” — no sense in wasting good smoke, after all.

I don’t listen to Gangsta Rap and I don’t watch TV shows like “Gangland” or “Growing Up Gotti,” or watch The Godfather movies. In the same way, I don’t like Frank Sinatra. If I have to listen to something of that ilk, I’ll take Bobby Darin or Bing Crosby.

I agree with many blacks that Elvis is about as much the King of Rock n Roll as Tiny Tim was. Did he help popularize it? Yes, but there are only about 5 true rock songs in his whole repertoire. The rest? You guessed it, lounge music.

But hey, these are just my opinions and my tastes have NEVER represented mainstream opinion. Hell, I buy all the albums that most people look at and say: “Don’t you own anything that anyone has ever heard of?”

But I like it.

And here’s one of my favorite guitarists of all time, he comes in about halfway through. There’s a false ending and it comes back for a second lead passage. Quite emotional playing…

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Ron Lindeboom]

Wow!$#@! Now *that’s* an album that The Chaiman should have done, Todd.

The four Zosos rune symbols (from Led Zeppelin 4) with the added 5th symbol (how appropriate) for Frankie — a martini glass no less — is simply stunning art! I am impressed, Todd. Kinda brings a whole new meaning to The Lemon Song from LZ2 — yessirree, squeeze them lemons, baby, for my daiquiri.

😉

I think the idea of that one is even more out there than Dread Zeppelin — a band that Tim Wilson and I want to hire for the COW Leader party.

[Ron Lindeboom]

I would agree that Avid’s new team is faring better than the last two teams of the last few years.

But in fairness, I think the move to pitch Media Composer at Macworld (even at the new low price point) is far too late in the game to be anything more than a “Hey, let’s try something totally different” marketing play — but one that is doomed to fail, in my opinion.

That said, they have been doing other things that have made far more sense than many of the plays made by their recent predecessors.

Like Tim Wilson, I don’t think the lay-offs were a bad thing — other than for the people directly affected — and that they likely were being too conservative with the layoffs. Sometimes, surgeons cut away parts of the body to save the life of the patient — and Mike Cohen films the whole process. ;o) As you said in your first post of this thread, Terry, markets and things change.

When I saw the Macworld play, I almost laughed out loud, except that it was so pathetic.

I have said it before and I will say it again: I don’t believe for a second that Avid is going out of business. In fact, I think that they will live long into the future. As long as Adobe, Apple and Sony build the low and middle grounds in this industry, there will always be room for companies like Avid and Autodesk, meeting specific needs of specific customers willing to pay for them.

But will Avid find its future at Macworld? Now that is something that I will bet against.

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yeah, but please tell me that you played Zeppelin or Hendrix while doing it, Walter.

🙂

Man, now where’s my Floyd albums?

Ron Lindeboom

[Ron Lindeboom]

Yes, all of what you say is correct, Terry. Well, except that Avid has no Steve Jobs.

No, FCP did not save Apple and it is true that the entire Pro Apps division could disappear tomorrow and it would barely scratch Apple’s future.

While Apple innovates and “opportunizes,” growing market share and launching new products — even going so far as to change the company name to reflect the new reality — Avid misses opportunities and draws back into its shell. But hey, it did go to Macworld and it did change its logo — kind of reminds me of when Media 100 changed their logo from a professional looking one to that of what the users called “Satan’s Eyeball.”

Avid reminds me of the Apple of Gil Amelio, not that of Steve Jobs.

But hey, that’s just me.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Scott Carnegie] “I actually have brought this up to Avid before, since I rarely hear their name mentioned on podcasts like the DV show and Digital Production Buzz and it sounded like they might look at a sponsorship of some kind. perhaps I will bring it up again. As I mentioned in another post in this thread, I think that marketing is where Avid falls short.”

Like Avid itself, there are some people that follow these shows — but their actual counts are quite small (and even DV Magazine is getting down to a pamphlet size, with few advertisers) compared to Creative COW.

Their conference moved to Pasadena this year because it had shrunk so small over the years that it could no longer justify the costs associated with the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Conversely, The COW has well over 2 million monthly unique visitors but unfortunately, Avid thinks an iPod show with a few FCP people scrambling for a place in it is more important than a site that has two million+ unique people each month that ARE actually interested in video. Go figure.

I think that Avid has so marginalized themselves that they will continue to lose marketshare until they get down to only the ones that demand “Avid heavy lifting abilities.” But hey, even companies like Bunim-Murray (who were once staunchly Avid-based) are now using FCP systems and they have mighty heavy workflow demands — so at least some of even Avid’s most truly core market focus have found ways around them.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Todd Terry] “Maybe if you could hear Dean Martin singing carols on the jukebox…”

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If I could hear Dean Martin playing on the jukebox, I — for one — would run screaming from the building.

I remember that one of the best parts of underground radio when the FM airwaves hit in the late 60s was that we never had to hear Dean Martin, Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra ever again.

I took that as a GOOD thing.

Why the former rock generation suddenly has run back to the crooners is beyond me.

Kathlyn and I notice that the good restaurants are full of that audio offense and we can’t believe that we actually have to pay to listen to stuff we once thought we’d escaped once and for all.

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Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Scott Carnegie] “I don’t think it is a fair criticism to make of a company that they want to spend their resources on their own product rather than someone elses.”

Dog breeders and royalty do this also, Scott. Unfortunately, in the end, it pulls from a shallower genepool and in the end breeds a lack of diversity and has birthed things that are sickly and twisted.

But hey, it “kept the money among the royals,” so it served its purpose — even if later generations paid for all the inbreeding.

Ron Lindeboom