Tom Petty. Dead at 66.

[ChuckK3]

At 53, I honestly feel like I've been blessed to live through some of the greatest music ever made. As these songwriters and legends begin to pass from our generation, it really hits close to home. These folks were the ones we would watch on TV, listen to on the radio, and yes, occasionally try to emulate with an impromptu concert in the shower using the back-scrubber as a microphone. --- great memories from a by-gone time for this Dawg.

R.I.P. Tom Petty...and thanks for some amazing songs.

[Champ967]

If music doesn’t offend anyone, then it does not have a point of view

Logical fallacy - false choice.

[stodgdog]

They just got bored with each other. If music doesn’t offend anyone, then it does not have a point of view and it is not good art. But that doesn’t mean that if something offends it is good art.

I don't understand what you are trying to say. If someone is offended, one infers that emotion. I don't think that art has to offend anyone, even if one doesn't agree with the "point of view." There are a plethora of emotions that music, or any art, can evoke which have nothing to do with offending anyone, but has a point of view.

[Guisslapp]

I don't understand what you are trying to say. If someone is offended, one infers that emotion. I don't think that art has to offend anyone, even if one doesn't agree with the "point of view." There are a plethora of emotions that music, or any art, can evoke which have nothing to do with offending anyone, but has a point of view.

I think you are interpreting “offense” too narrowly. I mean it to say that art should be provocative and if it is just widely embraced it is not sufficiently provocative. The artist is coloring in the lines.

[Champ967]

if it is just widely embraced it is not sufficiently provocative.

logical fallacy -- false choice.

[Dwayne From Minden]

The Spirit of Radio

Rush

Begin the day
With a friendly voice
A companion, unobtrusive
Plays that song that's so elusive
And the magic music makes your morning mood


Off on your way
Hit the open road
There is magic at your fingers
For the spirit ever lingers
Undemanding contact
In your happy solitude


Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price
Almost free


All this machinery
Making modern music
Can still be open-hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question
Of your honesty, yeah your honesty


One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity, yeah


Invisible airwaves
Crackle with life
Bright antennae bristle
With the energy
Emotional feedback
On a timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price
Almost free


For the words of the profits
Were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sounds, of salesmen, of salesmen, of salesmen

Songwriters: ALEX ZIVOJINOVICH, GARY LEE WEINRIB, NEIL ELWOOD PEART

[Guisslapp]

logical fallacy -- false choice.

What is your defense of boring music?

[TYLERTECHSAS]

They just got bored with each other. If music doesn’t offend anyone, then it does not have a point of view and it is not good art. But that doesn’t mean that if something offends it is good art.

Is this the real reason liberals continually offend the masses with their morals, art, ideals and lies?

[TYLERTECHSAS]

What is your defense of boring music?

A lot of the world thinks classical music is boring. Does that make it so and need to be defended?

[DogsWin]

At 53, I honestly feel like I've been blessed to live through some of the greatest music ever made. As these songwriters and legends begin to pass from our generation, it really hits close to home. These folks were the ones we would watch on TV, listen to on the radio, and yes, occasionally try to emulate with an impromptu concert in the shower using the back-scrubber as a microphone. --- great memories from a by-gone time for this Dawg.

R.I.P. Tom Petty...and thanks for some amazing songs.

Absolutely Chuck. I'm 54 and we've definitely been blessed with the best 'lifetime' era of music in history.

[Guisslapp]

A lot of the world thinks classical music is boring. Does that make it so and need to be defended?

Just the boring pieces.

[Guisslapp]

Absolutely Chuck. I'm 54 and we've definitely been blessed with the best 'lifetime' era of music in history.

It actually is still getting better.

[Guisslapp]

Is this the real reason liberals continually offend the masses with their morals, art, ideals and lies?

The Eagles were liberal right?

[ChipDog]

....... you ought to give soccer a shot. Boring and popular.

now that's classic

[ChipDog]

The Eagles were liberal right?

It would be difficult to find a more liberal person than Don Henley.