good rock now

>Teeny bopper,ice cream,pre-fabs,.... yes they were always
>here you say....Monkees....Menudo.....NKOTB.... But now
>they are all that there is Lets feed the Piano some hay
>and see if it eats,.......

I know of three rock groups producing top-of-the-line music right now...

1. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
2. Ozric Tentacles
3. Phish

...and more producing very good music.

Why not improve the piano rather than sending it to the farm? Carbon fiber
soundboard instead of wood, tuning machine instead of pins/pinblock, 5 or 6
octaves instead of 8, single and double stringing instead of triple,
generalized keyboard instead of halberstadt, 19 and 31 tones per octave
instead of 12...

Carl

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Carl Lumma wrote:

> Why not improve the piano rather than sending it to the farm?

Because a good synth is a lot cheaper than a cheap piano.

-Bram

>I know of three rock groups producing top-of-the-line music right
now...

>1. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

In what sense is this a rock group? Top-of-the-line, yes; popular, very;
rock, I think not.
Do you think Medeski, Martin & Wood is a rock group? They're really good
too (my friend Bob Moses was their teacher!)
Fans of these two bands are very numerous and tend to listen to very
little rock music.

>2. Ozric Tentacles

They don't _suck_, but I sure get tired of them very quickly.

>3. Phish

They push the envelope _and_ bring it home! Probably more people have
heard 20th-century techniques because of Phish than through the efforts
of any other musician or group (including Boulez). Don't buy a CD -- see
them live.

Any of these three groups would no doubt make marvelous use of
microtonal scales.