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gravedigger · Unread post by **gravedigger** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:40 pm

DmbFanJason wrote:hmmm....I thought this topic was gonna be about Getting ass-raped while while being beaten over the head with a club...

I thought he was gonna ask: Have you ever seen a lamb getting rammed by a ram, down by the bay (down by the bay) where the watermellons grow (where the watermellons grow)

ok ok, I didn't sleep last night so I'm a little on the loopy side tonight.

theancienttree · Unread post by **theancienttree** » Wed May 07, 2003 12:10 am

i thought i made up the main chords for all along the watchtower before i became a dmb fan, then when i bought my first cd i was like, why are they playing my song, then i got out the old dylan records and yeah

God_Fearing_Man · Unread post by **God_Fearing_Man** » Wed May 07, 2003 12:14 am

It's just inevitable.

Everything has already been done before; all we can really do is try to improve upon it.

tripping brocolis · Unread post by **tripping brocolis** » Wed May 07, 2003 2:09 pm

I wrote something a while back that sounded pretty good for a verse riff. Then I realized that it sounded sort of like that stupid Creed song Arms Wide Open. I then vomitted and shortly there after discarded the riff.

I was very upset with myself.

littlefriend · Unread post by **littlefriend** » Sat May 10, 2003 10:59 pm

God_Fearing_Man wrote:It's just inevitable.

Everything has already been done before; all we can really do is try to improve upon it.

Some guy (can't remember who)around 1900 said something like "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Your probably about as wrong as he was.

God_Fearing_Man · Unread post by **God_Fearing_Man** » Sun May 11, 2003 1:17 am

Well there is a pretty big difference between something that is constantly evolving and not exactly linear (technology)

and something absolute and in some ways, unchanging.

the fact remains, every chord progression possible is in some song, somewhere.

This is not to say music is entirely linear - new forms and ideas are constantly being introduced.

but every song written borrows something from another song.

Is this a bad thing? absolutely not... but over a thoursand years of music productoin, it's kinda hard to write something that is entirely original.

I have alot more to say but have a terrible migraine right now, so I will end my post with these quotes:

relating music to poetry (hey they aren't that far off from each other)

"...musc, in its various modes of meter, rhythm and rhyme, is of so vast a moment in poetry as never to be wisely rejected - is so vitally importnt an adjunct, that he is simply silly who declines its assistance" (577)

"...thus there can be little doubt that in the unior of poetry with music in its popular sense, we shall find the widets fields for poetic development" (578)

-Edgar Allen Poe, The Poetic Principle

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different." (431)

-T.S. Eliot (through John Robert Colombo) A Found Introduction

2scoops · Unread post by **2scoops** » Sun May 11, 2003 7:37 pm

gravedigger wrote:I thought he was gonna ask: Have you ever seen a lamb getting rammed by a ram, down by the bay (down by the bay) where the watermellons grow (where the watermellons grow

grave, hilarious. takes me back to the days of raffi growing up.

-2scoops

God_Fearing_Man · Unread post by **God_Fearing_Man** » Sun May 11, 2003 8:19 pm

Raffi's the man.

one day I found an old video of a Raffi concert from like '87.

Seeing as that we were all stoned off our asses, we put it into the machine.

oh that guy was good.

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