If anyone asked me what I might do if I were God, I would add to the paragraph on record companies (in a very well-written essay, BTW) that I would smite, or at least afflict with vocal paralysis, any of those yutzes who, while on stage with a guitar, say, "The Lord gave me this song," and then proceed to sing/play a song which is at best mediocre, and I would proclaim to them, with an unmistakeable voice from heaven, "Please stop blaming me for your half-baked, insipid crap that you try to pass off as music! If you want to hear music that I really did give to someone, take a little time to listen to Bach's "Mass in B Minor" or Blind Willie Nelson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", or Rev. Gary Davis's "Death Don't Have No Mercy" or "O Glory, How Happy I Am"."
That's what I would do if I were God! (There, I feel better now!)
If anyone asked me what I might do if I were God, I would add to the paragraph on record companies (in a very well-written essay, BTW) that I would smite, or at least afflict with vocal paralysis, any of those yutzes who, while on stage with a guitar, say, "The Lord gave me this song," and then proceed to sing/play a song which is at best mediocre, and I would proclaim to them, with an unmistakeable voice from heaven, "Please stop blaming me for your half-baked, insipid crap that you try to pass off as music! If you want to hear music that I really did give to someone, take a little time to listen to Bach's "Mass in B Minor" or Blind Willie Nelson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground", or Rev. Gary Davis's "Death Don't Have No Mercy" or "O Glory, How Happy I Am"."
That's what I would do if I were God! (There, I feel better now!)