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[Keith]

As with many things, it's not an either-or situation. My kids are all  
21 or less, raised in the mp3 headphone age, and they do a lot of  
both. They play live music with their friends, and they listen to  
their headphones. The live music would has the edge over the  
headphone experience for them, but the listening feeds the intimate  
music making experience. In any field of endeavor in art or science  
you're going to have those who take the discipline to the level of  
mastery and those who do it on more of a 'folk' level. But, I don't  
consider the Einsteins and Anthony Braxtons elitist. While I enjoy  
listening to the Beatles occasionally, and I enjoy jamming with my  
kids, I find a necessary (for me) satisfaction listening to http:// 
tinyurl.com/5kanxs And call it elitism if you will, but I prefer a  
world with Gravity's Rainbow in it preferable to a world that had  
only campfire chats and Owen Meany.