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  1. Moxie M: That's not music. It's keyboard programming. Moxie was one of the best hard rock bands in Ontario in the late seventies.
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  2.  @wladicus1 : You can say I have an opinion, but it's a scientific one. If sounds are being produced by electronic machinery it's not music. Music is made by humans and almost every other creature on earth. The first self-produced synthesizer music to hit the Billboard charts was Gino Vanelli in 1978, with Prince in 1979. "When Doves Cry" has no bass, a singular statistic for Prince.
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  3.  @wladicus1 : I hope that means you are loosening up after all this media choas. I'm starting to have a good time. Too bad I can't use a scan of a newspaper article I wrote when Moxie played our arena.
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  4.  @wladicus1 : I am feeling cheerful. Let me add, have you ever read Professor Marshall McCluhan? In "The Media is The Message" he describes a pre-Industrial Revolution mind-set, and the effect of modern media and global computer use on the human mind and society. About my guitar playing: I say I make sounds like Jimi Hendrix and riff off like John Coltrane and Nicolo Paganini, and so far no-one disagreed. In our Scottish clan system being a "changeling" is very desirable trait. Let me be informative for you. In 1980, a friend, Professor John McCallum, Electronics at York University signed a years' contract with China. He went over to help build their internet and write the university curriculum. China is the only country with a sovereign online, able to shut off the rest of the world. A Lebanese computer expert told me last week that America spends too much money on military and not enough for online security, why it's being used against you. I better stop typing. Bay-an-uck-let, blessings on you in Gaelic, from the weir'd and wire'd.
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  5.  @JTuaim : When black and white TV came out, seeing three American and two Canadian stations, my parents said it should promote conversation, not hypnotize you. It only became more addictive. You can't build a healthy society with American spy technology.
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  6.  @JTuaim : You say Cleveland and I think of the Cleveland Browns, my fathers' favorite football team. Moxie was a hard rock band, maybe with the same talent as Foghat and Bad Company. As a Toronto band, Ontarios' capital, they advertised themselves as being bigger than Z.Z. Top in Texas. If I recommended a band from that era I would say Max Webster, taking it to the Max, a great live band. Lighthouse, a communal effort with horns, were also hot in a mellow way. Max Webster, Coming off the Moon, LIghthouse, One Fine Morning. I would say Steppenwolf but they moved to California. Magic Carpet Ride and Born to be Wild. Good music is always magic, but back then record companies paid bands to record so they could make money selling records. That was better.
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  7. Carlos Frank: Whatever you did that made you a pathetic person isn't going to monetize you here.
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