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Opening Arguments

Happy-go-lucky Bob

A little ray of sunshine from Bob Dylan before he stops off at our Memorial Stadium in a couple of weeks:

Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."

"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."

I think I know what he's getting at. Digital recording is phenomenal -- you can get every tiny little sound. And that's the problem -- there ends up being too much. Many of the early rock recordings remastered digitally sound just awful, partly because the deficiencies of analog recording hid how awful some of the musicians were. It's like hi-def in video -- is it a better experience now that we can see every little wrinkle in the newscaster's faces?

Creating good art is a selection process -- what to keep in or leave out, what to just hint at.

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