Seeger had himself and, I suppose, if you like his sort of output, then he was a musician.Īlthough "Welk's crew", and the "modern classical symphonic" players may not have expressed their creativity in these contexts, I doubt very much that "there was not a single spark of creativity in any of them." I already mentioned Henry Cuesta from Welk's crew. That definition would describe modern classical symphonic performance where mechanical precision is necessary to produce the beauty of the whole. They were simply not musical - and absolutely not musicians. Welk's crew had technique, but there was not a single spark of creativity in any of them and they played completely mechanically. Another, Cliff Mackay, had been part of The Happy Gang. Jim, instrumental music teachers at my schools included included Gino Silvi, whose group, the Gino Silvi singers, included a young Gordon Lightfoot. King told him that he needed to grimace, 'cause he made playing look too easy. Someone said it was the old Nashville thing that he'd picked up - pick and smile the whole time.) Later, grimacing became the norm. (An Ontario guitar legend dropped by our BG jam several weeks ago, and smiled through the evening. Perry Como was reputed to have hated the commercial pap that made his living. Nat "King" Cole started out as a fantastic jazz piano player (the Nat King Cole Trio), then made his money from middle-of-the-road songs. A number of musical legends didn't like what the were forced to do. If Lawrence Welk's directions were to smile like painted robots and play the written music note for note, at least it put food on the table. Whether or not they were creative musicians, they had to make a living, and that often meant conforming to the producer's/musical director's wishes. She was waiting for him to get home from school so they could go out and play. Long before she physically died, she had forgotten everyone she knew except her brother (who had died at the age of 80). I didn't realize that it was the start of early dementia. One of the things I never could figure out was how my mother, who had stacks of records by Billie Holiday, Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Pete Seeger, Jo Stafford, Les Paul, and dozens of other great jazz and pop acts, could stop listening to them and instead watch that moronic hour of imitation music by those grinning losers. In fact, long before the phrase was used by Monty Python I sometimes referred to Welk's show as "Spam!" grin. There is no spark of creativity in their playing. Larry was the only one with any real talent and his was slight - the rest were just great at practice and at maintaining a big S.E. I can't disagree about the band being Phenomenal - they certainly were a phenomenon - but I can disagree about them being musicians. Well I listened to about as much of both videos as I could take.
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