I always thought Simon Cowell was a discerning no shit kinda guy but seeing his response to that made me lose all respect for him. I believe his quote was it sounded like "a dying cat", but if he cant recognise the beautiful tonality and timbre behind that then he clearly knows fuck all about music.

Mike, Simon Cowell is a douche.
He didn't like the sound it made, and completely ignored the talent the kid has.

Ew. I'm discussing idol stuff. Carry on.

"MyOwnFlag, how much have you made from producing music?"

That guy makes money from music by sticking to what has been done a million times before by people who have no other talent than to recognise what is safely within mainstream limits. And when it comes to real musicality, that talent isn't an awful lot.

Nevertheless I both have to agree and disagree with the guy.

I disagree for the fact that he bashed way too early, it was not his appreciation of musical skill that made him push the button but his stereotypical thinking of 'oh this is not a hot girl shaking her ass on a computer beat'.

I have to agree though that it did sound quite out of tune sometimes and that's not what you want to hear. The player is quite talented though and I bet he's a great violin player already. But it's just very hard to get a decent sound out of something that is not meant to be played as a musical instrument. Heck, it is often difficult enough to get the right sound out of something that IS meant as a musical instrument.

So because he remains within mainstream music he no longer knows what he's doing? I'd honestly like to see any one of us acheive what he has. I don't like most of the music he has been involved in, but you can't deny he does it well.

The saw was awful. He was out of tune on several occasions and at points it didn't sound like the song he was meant to be playing.

http://westsounds.com claims to have a simply enormous catalog - over 200,000 albums online. This seemingly extensive catalog contains not just the latest and greatest, but also older tracks too - which lots of people (like me) are shopping for. I have had a tendency to lose CD's over the years, so this is a good way for me to reclaim (cheaply) the music I've already bought in the past.