Yay! Props for mentioning ELP there!
Saying that electronic music is modern folk music is a crime. When electronic is folk music then rock is definetly classical music. Hoho.
I think people always put their hands on shit when starting to evaluate musicians by the genre or methods of making music. I think the combination of skill and creativity is the thing that makes a musician good or bad. And of course it's very difficult to compare a technically skilled but non-creative player, such as slave trained classical pianist, to a creative but technically inferior bub.
When you think of it, why to rank musicians or genres in the first place? A good music is good music regardless of the musician(s) behind it. It's really simple thing actually.
The most debatable issue actually is what is musicianship. Are the sequencer jammers musicians? Does banging two coconut shells together make one a musician or just a plain horse rider? Well, to be frank, one shouldn't give a shit - It makes life a bit easier. Hoho. When person A says that person B is definetly a musician, well maybe the person B is then. A musician in a terms of profession? Most likely not. But in a general meaning? Definetly yes.
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