[Mears]

“He was into Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, etc........”

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Your stepfather was obviously a VERY intelligent man-——Benny Goodman was a genius IMHO.

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[Red Badger]

He was a computer technician for the FAA..........when computers were the size of refrigerators.................

[right way right]

Great drumming in the old days too.
Today, they use stupid playback loops and other electronics that are very low skilled so they can rap such great ignorance.

The ‘musician’ in the band plays a turntable! A damn turntable! Well, more to to it but... you get my point. There are great musicians out there it just takes a lot of digging.
We have become a garbage pile society where you have to dig in every aspect of our lives.

Why the acceptance of mediocrity?
I guess this has gone on for decades really but, it has really ramped up in the digital age.