NP - Musician RIP's or the P-list habitus

[Johnny Marr]

On Thursday, January 7, 2016, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> fwiw, have no clue who Bley or Boulez were (no offense).
>


Pierre Boulez was one of the outstanding living classical  composer at the
dawn of the year. Not sure who would be considered 'living greats' nowadays.

Perendecki? Reich? Glass? Part? John Adams?  Maybe even Morricone.

Boulez was more widely loved as a conductor than as a composer, as his own
music was a bit too difficult for most contemporary tastes. Perhaps opinion
will catch up with him, as it did with Mahler (whose obituary in the Times
focussed almost exclusively on his career as a conductor, with only a
cursory mention of his symphonies).


more of a Crim/Fripp universe fan myself. Lemmy, of course though I find it
> interesting that many talk more about his lifestyle than about the music.
> same thing happens with Hawkwind--more articles about sex groupies than
> anything. and why motorhead is lumped and labelled heavy metal is beyond
> me--even the man himself said it was only r-n-r.
>

Lemmy was a die hard Little Richard fan in particular.

I suppose I'll always remember Motörhead for their performance of Ace of
Spades on my favourite edition of The Young Ones.




> high (very high) spark of low-heeled boy
>
> yrs
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> rich
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 5:56 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mccissell at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> So as the winter D-list  piles up (Mr. Bones do work xmas eve and other
>> holidays), I noticed that some folks get our P-list homage and others
>> don't. Why?
>>
>> Of course, the loss of Bley and Boulez are sure to be felt  among the
>> crowds of those who went to their concerts or bought their ablums - some of
>> whom appear to be on the P-list.
>>
>> And the loss of Lemmy? Now, I know that Motorhead can't possibly compare
>> to Boulez, but what about a shout-out to the man who sang "Eat the Rich!"?
>>
>> Might I conclude from this that our tastes tend toward the consecrated
>> artists of so-called 'high culture'?
>>
>> By the way, Lemmy got an Obit in The Econmist, worth reading.
>>
>> ciao
>> mc otis
>>
>>
>
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