From: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org (goths-digest) To: goths-digest@smoe.org Subject: goths-digest V2 #120 Reply-To: goths@smoe.org Sender: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-goths-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk goths-digest Tuesday, August 25 1998 Volume 02 : Number 120 Today's Subjects: ----------------- influences [Aquabats88@aol.com] influences........again [DaliAdore@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:30:05 EDT From: Aquabats88@aol.com Subject: influences why is everyone saying rasputina was influenced by other bands i think they are forgetting a bands evolution they just grew and since they didn't want to point the finger at one of the girls they needed someone to manifest their feelings on. tom ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:24:09 EDT From: DaliAdore@aol.com Subject: influences........again even the most original and creative of bands had influences...it's just absolutely inevitable... i don't think anybody in the music industry right now is absolutely original and free of any influences whatsoever... the only ones i can think of who are free of influences is mozart and some other classical masters because of their "complete child prodigy-ness" and such... i don't know if any of you are experts in classical music but having played the piano for 10 years, i can see a lot of classical influences in rasputinas music and also it should be pretty obvious from the nature of the cello which is predominantly a classical instrument... anyway, everybody draws on certain elements from their predecessors...it's just to what degree and just because we dont' see it and don't want to admit it, doesn't mean that it isn't there...especially in playing a form of music that's been almost thoroughly explored in the first place... i don't dismiss the fact that rasputina with their cellos is quite original and something that's not often done if at all at this point, but music is music and usually the same thing repeats itself....just in another form that we fail to recognize...well, until next time...peace, love, and empathy drew ------------------------------ End of goths-digest V2 #120 ***************************