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brassbandmaestro
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« on: 10:31:36, 18-04-2008 »
I just heard this morning on R3 that they played The Beatles and I thought, my god was happening.

So what I was thinking was, what you people think about starting up an independant radio/tv station? Perhaps connected with the Sky network??
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« Reply #1 on: 10:47:39, 18-04-2008 »
Maybe you should just lie down in a darkened room for a couple of hours, bbm. It's not the end of the world, nor is it the first time the Beatles have been heard on Radio 3.  Wink

Personally, I rather think that starting an independent radio station might need rather more capital than the lot of us can put together, particularly at a time when major stations on the DAB networks with huge backing have recently folded.

P.S. And had your god happened?
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« Reply #2 on: 10:56:17, 18-04-2008 »
Yes it had happened Ron Dough!! When R3 played The Beatles!!
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« Reply #3 on: 10:59:03, 18-04-2008 »
If you want a guarantee of dumb-down, then doing something connected with Sky would be the most certain way of achieving it Sad

Rumours of the death of R3 have been considerably exaggerated Wink
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« Reply #4 on: 11:00:59, 18-04-2008 »
Quote from: brassbandmaestro on 10:56:17, 18-04-2008
Yes it had happened Ron Dough!! When R3 played The Beatles!!

So it wasn't all bad then, bbm? You like The Beatles? Huh
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« Reply #5 on: 11:09:22, 18-04-2008 »
When my sister was a weeny bopper screaming to the latest Beatles EP, I remained loftily unimpressed and continued listening to Iolanthe.  But my piano teacher at the time assured me Gilbert and Sullivan were not classical music.  The implication being that were Light Programme stuff.  The boundaries of genres and classifications are always blurred, and they certainly were before whatever happened in 1908 that ensured the popular and art music no longer used the same musical language.

I don't know the context in which the piece to which bbm objected was played, but if it was relevant to the other pieces (by way of contrast, character or whatever) then I see nothing out of place with the occasional track.

RVW's Folk Songs from Somerset are popular tunes: surely you wouldn't object to them on Radio 3, bbm?  (I listened to them yesterday as courtesy of First Great Western I sped between Bruton and Taunton.)
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« Reply #6 on: 11:14:56, 18-04-2008 »
Quote from: brassbandmaestro on 10:31:36, 18-04-2008
I just heard this morning on R3 that they played The Beatles and I thought, my god was happening.


So, bbm, you were very pleased at this event ?
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« Reply #7 on: 11:19:45, 18-04-2008 »
Just recently TOP inmates were getting awfully hot under the collar because Tom Lehrer had been played. Gasp. The outrage! By contrast, the four mopheads appear to have attracted very few baleful glares. It looks as though questions will not be raised in The House Roll Eyes
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« Reply #8 on: 11:43:43, 18-04-2008 »
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Just recently TOP inmates were getting awfully hot under the collar because Tom Lehrer had been played.

Even Copland has been making them seeth.  Oaths have been uttered over the toasted teacakes at Bufton Towers.  "Goo'lor! Damned colonials are writing music now!  They'll be admitting 'em to me Golf Club next, the blighters!"
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« Reply #9 on: 12:13:12, 18-04-2008 »
Ho Reiner,
I'm afraid I said something derisory about Copland but not for any "damned colonial" reason, it's just that i have yet to hear a single piece of his that i would actually like to hear ever again!  Don't know why, he just doesn't appeal to me in the slightest.

Don't mind the Tom Lehrer though!   Wink
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« Reply #10 on: 12:56:29, 18-04-2008 »
Not even "Quiet City"? Sad
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« Reply #11 on: 13:51:29, 18-04-2008 »
No, i heard that yesterday - I found it dull and uninspired...
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« Reply #12 on: 09:35:44, 19-04-2008 »
Yes, Mort, I do like The Fab Four, but I got a surprise when I heard them on R3!! 

I quite like Quiet City. ery inspired piece. Possisbly cos the trumpet part in it, most likely.

As far as TOP goes, some of them are just a bunch of nutters. there is one particular person i just love to wind up and he jumps at it on every occaision. Poor fellow!!
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« Reply #13 on: 12:50:39, 19-04-2008 »
The Beatles were set for GCSE a while back, can't remember when. Has anyone tried to play the chord sequences though in pieces like Norwegian wood? good stuff !!

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« Reply #14 on: 13:02:58, 19-04-2008 »
I too heard Strawberry Fields yest morning - sounded good to me, I was singing it to myself for the rest of the morning.

Referring to my cassette catalogue, I've got a recording off morning [classical music] R3 of Hendrix's Little Wing played by Benjamin Verdery on acoustic guitar on 22/6/91 - so dumbing down has been going on for some time Wink
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