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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
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We play with rock or punk or folk or soul or gospel music but it never owns us and we never own it.
Does it mean that although they play this music it's not really their style?
We play with rock or punk or folk or soul or gospel music but it never owns us and we never own it.
Does it mean that although they play this music it's not really their style?
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Something like that. "Not really their style" is a pejorative, and I'm sure they intend no disrespect. It may mean sort of pan style .
- Something like that.
- "Not really their style" is a pejorative, and I'm sure they intend no disrespect.
- It may mean sort of pan style .
- Like the Boston Pops plays everything from The Beatles to Beethoven to Ellington to movie scores, all with great sincerity.
- But they'd never claim to play Beethoven with the command of the Boston Symphony.
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Something like that. "Not really their style" is a pejorative, and I'm sure they intend no disrespect. It may mean sort of pan style. Like the Boston Pops plays everything from The Beatles to Beethoven to Ellington to movie scores, all with great sincerity. But they'd never claim to play Beethoven with the command of the Boston Symphony. Something like the old addage, Jack of all t
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So maybe it's better to say, but none of these are our genres. We play them because we like experimenting. Or something like that.
So maybe it's better to say, but none of these are our genres. We play them because we like experimenting. Or something like that.
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Yes, that's the idea, with a couple of caveats: There's nothing in what you've said which claims they really do have there own genre, although I'm sure it says so elsewhere. (Woops, the other one I misread!)
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