by Unkle Buck

Created on: May 27, 2007

Kudos to Dino, and I do hope your major CD does well. As far as my background...I've played drums for 40 yrs. and played anything that'll pay $125/night, but I'll bite at $75. I grew up playing Southern Soul (Motown, Muscle Shoals, Memphis), Beatles, and such, but became rabid about jazz in the 7th grade. I also studied at college level, but when the prof.s thought there was no life after Bach and Beethoven I went to play Steely Dan on the road.

So, why do I detest rap? It's certainly not because I'm racist because I can lay down a groove that has 10 times more soul than any BOOM BOOM WHACK, BMP BA BOOM WHACK idiot can. Also I lived with a militant black bassist out on the road 24/7 for 2 yrs. and we taught each other volumes about music and life. No, the reason I detest it is because I look at it from a much deeper perspective than just music, and it deeply saddens me to see how it has cheapened and soiled the once proud, but humble and legendary heritage made to American music by the black community. Yeah! I know Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and some of the still living legends don't talk this way about it, but for Snoop Dog to even dream he's within light years of their level is laughable.

Gone are the days when in order to sell something musicians had to be able to at least sit down at a piano, or guitar, and construct a progression along with a solid groove over a bass line that only Stevie could dream of, and only then start writing lyrics (not lyrics about killing cops, and acting like depraved beings that animals would be scared of). These punks don't even know how to hold a microphone, but they'll go out and spend $1,000's on Pro Tools and such and think they know somethin' 'bout producing music, and have the audacity to call it art!

So, if that's racist then I guess I am, but I don't think the legends would label me as such.

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