in their eyes, which mostly results in stupid, arrogant, mental and erratic behaviour that no-one benefits from than themselves. Not even to mention those that follow them with great awe and are infatuated with them. I believe the world would be a much better place if such “artists” would lay down their rubbish music and do something more useful in society instead of spreading their canker in peoples brains, what so clearly is evident when you start to look around you carefully. This might sound harsh, but reality usually bites hard.

Insulting one in trying to usurp yourself into a higher position is basically flattery for me to observe from your point of view. I have no problems with your points of view or anyone elses, but see a trend that is usually happening online or in open discussions how to cave someone else’s head in by thinking that whenever I write something or say something it must be so that I can floor someone and make them “paralyzed” in responding back. This is the moment In where the opponent triumphantly wants to walk way with a huge medal given by the observing public and by themselves. Not realizing that actually nothing meaningful was said and to the benefit of the discussion in progress.

My opinion of your today’s “artists” are not very high. I see little skill, though I see a lot of $$

Your reply implies to me that my validation of an observation would in your investigation of the matter as being wasted. If you have problems with voices in your head, it would be good that you should try to get rid of them in another way than playing overly loud music to ban them. Most things are changed by a whisper if one carefully would listen to it’s instructions and not by bombastic mind-numbing sounds.

Also my scale of musical interest is far greater that the list of people and groups that I mentioned. Unfortunately this blog does not give me much more characters to dispense on the internet than if I would create more blog posts as you do. “Real music” is irrelevant. Skill however is something that I can as a person appreciate. Whether doing that myself or observing it.

Even better if it turns out you are, ‘not in fact old yet a young person who loves REAL music’ because if i read one more account of someone young believing they are the only person under 45 to enjoy other types of music than that of todays artists.

Or perhaps that last statement is my way of saying, old or young, classical or contemporary, after reading your comment i can tell you- Ain’t no music that can help you..

From your message i can only assume you are a lover of both classical music and the music that is today labelled vintage. I once bought a Bach record and it came with a free high horse, similar to the one you rode in on in fact- True story.
Of course, as a classical music lover your knowledge and understanding of both music and the effects auditory stimulation has on the brain are far superior to mine (or that of anyone with a degree in brainery… Probably). so i am clutching at straws when i break to you the news that Bach and Santana are not ‘in the times’ or even close to the same time.

I have no problem with the things you mentioned except one and I quote ” Knowledge and understanding of, and deriving pleasure from, music, either your own or made by someone else, can only contribute to emotional intelligence and sensitivity, surely.” Are you referring to the nowadays crappy music that many a group is making and have absolutely no skill to play an instrument virtuously like as in the times of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, and even to mention E. L.O., Supertramp, Santana, The Commodores, Pink Floyd, Emmerson Lake, etc. The Music of today is a torment to someone’s mind and ears. Repetitive dull choruses and a lot of stamping and banging on the brain. Hardly, making one’s brain better or intelligent. I think rather mindnumbing and ruining any understanding of true Music.

Ever thought about how it would look like if we all had a head or brain size like Tweety bird to the proportion of our bodies and how hard it is to walk around with such head or brain ?

Things must be made less complicated is the answer instead of an overreactive brain that knows everything. Stimulus does not mean advance in ability or skill. Just look around what “stimulus” has done. As far as I can observe, it made more of a mess with all the rules and regulations in place than any SIMPLE solution for the problem in the first place. It still is 1+1 = 2 thisis what the general people understand and can work with not 2^*200+100/3(2-3) = infinity.

Do you know there is still life without gadgets, trumpets, music, computers, etc. etc. We just keep telling ourselves that there isn’t