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on October 14, 2025, 4:48 pm, in reply to "Re: We need good protest music. "
Glen Miller used his musicians as a barometer. If they liked a song, he'd round file it. If they hated a tune, he knew the public would embrace it. The band absolutely HATED In the Mood. They still do!
I never met Dylan. I'd like to. I am not sure his instrumentals are out of tune, or tuned to a kind of tuning that intentionally sounds that way, which there are many kinds. Perfect tuning in a key like C generates a weird out of tune effect when music is played in more distant keys, like E or bA
This doesn't sound artsy, folksy, or mod. It sounds bad. Weird bad. He might have been going for weird.
Second most important is marketing, which means frequency of performance. The song must be quality to begin with. It must be played on the airways often enough to become easily and quickly widely known.
Behind the scenes is a real dog eat dog, ugly ugly business.
It became too complicated when lawyers got involved.
The self promotion gadgetry of You Tube and Spotify so badly flooded the market, a tremendous amount of quality material is never heard or rises above the din of poorly produced mediocrity.
You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony![]()



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