Its my personal opinion of what makes good music.
You assume that just because I like ELP I'm some kind of old muso, who rates all music quality based on chops and listens to Mike Oldfield recorRAB all day. You couldn't be more wrong. In fact I know for a fact that we like a lot of the same music. We just enjoy it for different reasons.
I don't even get what your point is. I already said performance is a part of it, hence "musicianship".
Oh boy, here we go again.
And I ask you. How do you spot emotion? You can't, you cant read a musicians mind, you have no idea how much emotion was invested in a song when it was written, no idea at all. Its all assumption. You have your own made up critera for passion, so to speak.
Oh give me a freaking break. :laughing:
And how can you tell who is just going through the motions? You can't. What makes passion? What? The lyrical content? The kinda techniques that are used? THE FREAKING GENRE OF MUSIC?
Its all in your mind, you can put passion into your performances sure, but passion can't channel itself "through" the music or whatever you want to call it, music is just a sequence of sounRAB for goodness sake. Stop trying to make everything so dramatic.
Why not? Why can't people enjoy music for different reasons?
And for the last time I'm not a muso. When I listen to music I'm not thinking about what time signature it's in or what scale is being used for that guitar solo, I enjoy the damn music.
I think I know enough about how music is marketed.
"Passion" has been a successful marketing tool since the birth of rock n roll.