Hmmm ... reminded of Leonard Cohen's 'Jazz Police'
I'm much less sniffy than I once was about what constitutes a musician - for instance, shifted my stance about turntablists. Still think there is special status for the ability to perform your work live to an audience, because music is
inter alia a communication medium and nothing enhances that more than actually being there. A couple of days ago I went with my daughter to her first 'open mic' session at a local music pub. She's an avid consumer of mainstream production-heavy pop and used to that level of sonic quality. But as we listened to an amateur guitar/perc/accordeon trio delivering a [snobbishness] technically flawed [/snobbishness] but fun tune she turned to me grinning and said 'Aren't they GOOD?!'