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- From: 1418@EF.GC.MARICOPA.EDU (Robert Garret Gruhn)
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- Subject: Re: "CUBBY"
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:38:57 GMT
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- Thank you all for your replys (whether they be nice or not)
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- The only reason I say that they deem it alternative is because I don't go
- to a record store saying, "Hmmm, I"ll buy something alternative." If I
- hear something I like, I buy it. As it turns out, most of my stuff could
- be classified as alternative. Now I think that labeling music is just a
- marketing type of thing...you call them alternative, you get one kind of
- audience, you call it bee-bop, you get another kind of audience.
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- I have my own opinion on the question of "is alternative becoming the
- mainstream?" I think that there's a difference. Alternative isn't
- becoming anything...its a pretty broad term...it covers everything from
- Nine Inch Nails to Sarah McLachlan...Mainstream is becoming
- alternative...somehow, they are reaching over and finding that they like
- these various types of music. Personally, if a group "makes it big", I'm
- not going to stop listening to them...I think success can challenge a
- group and possibly make them better.
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- Thank you again.
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- Robert "Cubby" Gruhn...1418@ef.gc.maricopa.edu
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- The stars are stacked against you girl
- Get back in bed.
- - Mary Chapin-Carpenter
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