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Names and Announcements
ok so this discussion thingy can be addicting. number
one, what is this rumor of an over the rhine letter
going out? i never got it.
secondly, thanks for the discussion of names.
interesting. the point that neither of you addresses
however is that within the field of music
specifically, certain names have undeniable
associations with specific artists. i'm not talking
about football teams and soul singers, or band's based
in ohio and rivers flowing through europe, or people
going about their business with the same first and
last names. i'm talking about musicians. generically,
if someone says, hey, have you heard this monk album,
i'm sorry, very few people are going to think of rich
hordinski, they'll think of Thelonius Monk, an
important composer, a pioneer in the world of jazz who
put up with a lot of white bullshit back in the day.
it just makes no sense to me that a white guitarist
who on some level is a serious musician would take
that name for his own thing.
the point about the name having connotations before
Thelonius poured his soul out musically isn't relevant
at all to this discussion. police had connotations
before the police made records. beetles had
connotations before the beatles made records. once
they made their music, within the field of music,
those names were forever spoken for. dylan may have
taken his name from dylan thomas, but dylan thomas
wasn't a musician that dylan looked up to. elvis
costello probably took his first name from elvis
presley but at least they were both white. white
people have always been hugely influenced by black
music--look at the rolling stones and led zeppelin for
starters. that in itself is not offensive. i'm still
surprised that a musician would take the name monk,
and unlike the beatles, monk probably never had droves
of attorneys to protect his interests. he was too busy
being an artist.
i dunno, i'll let it go. rich, do your thing. if you
ever get famous, you'll have more people than me
saying, hey, wait a minute, that's not very cool.
np hear music volume 2, songs for long narrow stretches
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