--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which you do by trial and error, testing this with one audience, > > testing that with another. And voila, after enough such experiments, > > you are able to verify an emerging theory as to what various groups > > dig, and THEN based on this theory, you are able to fairly accurately > > predict what style, banter, and sets will get various types of > > audiences rocking. And if you get lucky, the journal of Blues Science > > will publish your paper -- and you can get a cushy job teaching at > > Georgetown U -- while still playing. Only now you can focus and hone > > your research as to what sets, songs and styles get your female > > students all worked up. A new theory, a new set of predictions -- > LOTS> more field work ... > > No, this is how Boy Band managers work. My job is to play the music > that rocks my world and find the people who agree. If you try to play > for the audience reaction as your center you become a lounge act. > > "Hey its really great to beeeee heeerrreeeee!" > > That doesn't give an artist the right to be a total dick and ignore > the audience reaction, but when they want me to play some classic rock > cuz they don't understand my musical focus, they get Son House's Death > Letter Blues and I am either able to convert them on the spot, or not!
Well, laudibly you are a musical purist. However, I am glad that you have found a theory -- with extraordinary predictive power, via experimentation, the causal factor to make womens's clothes levitate -- with the music of Getz and Gilberto.
