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| From | "Jake Beamer" <overlookedcreations1@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Stoner rock to power pop |
| Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:34:39 -0400 |
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Yes! Wow that is so true - all of that - I hear it. Stoner rock rules.
Hahah. Perhaps I should've put up that Flowerhead CD I have for grabs too!
Heh. Bruce, like you were saying a while back, the Eagles of Death Metal -
yeah. Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu, Kyuss, HELL yes. All of it.
And something I've wanted to say forever - kudos to you on the only and best
power pop label there is. Well, NL is so much more than a label. That
printed catalog you put out a while back was when I got it, and still is, a
BIBLE. Oh man.
The funniest thing is, like your realization there was no good power pop
label, I thought the same and was going to DO the same until I stumbled
across NL. I could never compete against that (morally and technically), and
wouldn't. Too damn good. I never knew how expansive you were until recently.
Keep it UP.
It must take a lot to swing getting the rights/licensing for some of those
reissues you get - Cheap Trick? :)
Jake Beamer
Producer, project manager
OverlookedCreations.com
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> >
> > I'm scratching my head here wondering how you made the transition from
>stoner
> > rock
> > to power pop. a great leap.
>
>
>Well, some of you may find this interesting on this board and many of you
>have known me for some time and are aware.....some background on Not Lame's
>owner: I'm 42, discovered rock 'n roll, along w/ millions of others, via
>the Beatles in the late 60's.
>
>Along w/ AM radio and my transistor radio, WRKO-Boston, MA. In 1972 I
>bought my first Creem magazine. Along w/ my older brother's record
>collection(Allmans, CSN&Y, Black Sabbath, Yes), I discovered at the ripe
>old
>age of 10 the transcendence of The Stooges, The NY Dolls, MC5 and the
>writings of Lester Bangs. It bled quickly into an obsession with rock 'n
>roll that over-took my young life----and,eventually, to the thrills of punk
>coming on the scene in 1976. For my life, 76/77 was the watershed moment in
>my rock 'n roll life, no doubt. *anyone*, including me, could do it.
>That
>stuck with me for evermore. Rock was not for 'stars' anymore. It was for
>anyone. It was accessible to all.
>
>Anyway, alongside the most heavy rock and proto-punk, Raspberries and
>Badfinger found their way into my ears at the same time. They sounded every
>bit as crucial to me as The Beatles did. Melody, Harmonies were IT, for
>me. AM Radio Top 40 w/ all that great funk and soul, hard rock,
>progressive
>rock, power pop(which was, of course, not called that back then) all lived,
>happily, side by side.
>
>It's been that way every since.
>
>So for my ears, I can go from listening to skinny tie power pop to Sabbath
>in a heartbeat, like breathing. Just how I'm hard-wired.
>
>But when starting Not Lame in late 1994, there were plenty of punk labels
>already, some hard rock ones and I had a very healthy obsession with power
>pop where I traded tapes with other power pop fans of this music in the
>late
>80's and early 90's and it was apparent that there were no labels dedicated
>to power pop, nor would there be many of them anytime soon.
>
>So I took a low interest credit card, a bit of savings and started a new
>hobby. Doing what no one else would or wanted to do.
>
>I thought it was my 'punk rock' statement, I suppose, as I had no delusions
>it would be embraced or heralded(quite the opposite) and that it would
>operate on the fringes of obscurity. It did. It has. It will continue
>that
>way.
>
>There's never been, nor will there ever be, much of a large market for this
>type of music. But it's important, very important, that there are avenues
>for the few us who DO care, do enjoy, do lift up this music and be able to
>buy it, if we so chose to. That was the mission from the start....get the
>music into the hands of the few who care.
>
>It still is GREAT when I come across the Not Lame customer who has the same
>roots and passions as I do when it comes to 70's punk, hard rock, prog rock
>and the like. ;-)
>
>Peace,
>Bruce
>@ Not Lame
>
>
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