Re: Gene Simmons Offer.

[Lif Strand <lif.strand@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm considering the issue solely from the point of view of the 
music.  Music is sound.  The part of performance that is perceived 
that is not sound by definition cannot be music. The part of 
performance that you take in with eyes (and thus, the costume, the 
face paint, the light shows, the giant videos) is not music.

I am not criticizing performance, nor even commenting on 
performance.  I am solely addressing the "musician" part of Maria 
Callas' comment "what constitutes a "serious" artistic musician".
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