The Music Of JC Harris

“positively the most intelligent progressive rock on this here planet”

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Thought For The Day: Try Being Original

09.7.2010

Detroit, Music Appreciation

Trying to be ‘original’ is a lot like that ‘buy low and sell high’ advice about betting on the stock market. It’s not as easy it seems. We’re taught from an early age to emulate something (or someone) that ‘works’. Which makes sense. But that strategy simply leads one off course if you’re trying to find your own voice.

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    Why I Like Opera But Not Metallica

    10.13.2009

    Detroit, Music Appreciation

    …even though both are quite ‘operatic’. When I was in school (way back in aught ’75) we all had to learn something about ‘opera’. But of course, it was all a big joke. I mean seriously: fat people trying to play ‘cinderella’; screaming in a way that no ‘normal’ person sings; with plots so ridiculous even Harlequin Romances wouldn’t publish ‘em. And they’re in… wait for it… eye-talian to boot! And if that’s what I thought—someone who was trying to like that shi.. er ‘music’, heaven help the man in the street! I now actually enjoy many of the classic [...]

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