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Originally Posted by RWood
What matters is not how the music was created but how you feel about it when you hear it. Enjoy it.
There is no reason to shun certain music just because it is created by professional musicians.
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Actually, being from a musician family caused me to shunt vocal based stuff, I was mostly interested by the unending solos and musical structures. At first it was Zeppelin, Deep Purple and heavy metal as it was called at the time. I played bass in a garage band. Further on, progressive rock came to the scene as our skills got better, then we were good enough for Steely Dan which was our springboard into jazz. A woodworking accident cost me two fingertips on the left hand, tearing up my dreams of being a musician and composer; but I don't believe I was good at it anyway.
Out of spite I tore up and burned all tapes we did. So for the past 25 years, I've been mostly enjoying music as a critical listener.
Although I do not like the raspy voice and the drug induced mantras of Waits, his connection to the channel of creation is notable and pure.
Having tasted the composition and performance sides of music, there are kinds of music I truly can not stand. Singer interpreters (Celine Dion's kind) and canned music producers such as one can find in techno, rap and elevator music; although there are little jewels there... sometimes.
Music is good to the soul and we are the lucky who can enjoy it. My father now in his seventies, played professionally in a military band and a little in the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. He is now loosing his hearing because of the loud volumes of the band classes he used to teach in small classrooms. That is the worst nightmare for me.