Ok, this is a question to determine if i'm the only one who haven't thought of this before.
So, last night, i was introducing my girlfriend to the noble tastes of weed (haven't smoked myself in 6months so it hit me pretty hard aswell.) So, I'm sitting there in my sofa feeling rather good about myself when i pick up a magazine from our sofa table. I skimmed through it and stumbled on this swedish comic strip. This particular comic was about two guys talking about the fact that all classic music are essentialy recorded by coverbands. Because let's face it, recording music was invented roughly 300 years after the death of the likes of beethoven, mozart, bach etc.
Now I'm sitting there with my mind thoroughly blown.
Since it remains blown today, my question is:
Am i amazed by this because:
A) If i hadn't considered this before, I'm awfully thick. B) I'm still high. C) You're amazed aswell.
I'm sorry, but A. Did you really think you were actually hearing the pieces as played by Beethoven and the like when you heard them on cds or the radio and what not?
On September 09 2010 03:12 -fj. wrote: bach and bheethoven were not bands they were composers. So you can't say anyone is "covering" them.
The answer is B
They still preform pieces of the music themselfs back in the days? I mean, they composed music that didn't involve a full orchestra. Well, i got my anwser then, just me. Still amazed ^^
And no, ofcourse i didn't think it was actually them that played, i just have never thought of it before.
Orchestras are sort of a different way to convey music than your typical rock band. The way a classical piece is played completely changes the way it sounds.
But anyway, there are still composers of classic styles, it's not like it's a dead genre.
EPT
