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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Another Bealtes? |
| Date | Tue, 03 Aug 2004 14:41:53 -0400 |
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At 02:02 PM 8/3/2004 -0400, Miguel Motta wrote:
>Great reply Josh... level headed and well thought out... other great replies
>added also... ('cept for the "get over it" one... how do you simply "get
>over" what restructed the already great inheritence left to us by the great
>blues players of the past, Elvis & Motown?...that's like trashing all of
>your mother and father's genes just because they're not around anymore...
>sheesh)
I'm not talking about getting over the music, which of course endures. I'm
talking about getting over the idea that the Beatles -- and the '60s --
were the pinnacle of Western Civilization. The Beatles were a kick-ass
rock and roll band. One of many. (Shocking revelation: there have
actually been kick-ass rock and roll bands *since* the Beatles, too!)
That's all they were, but isn't that enough? Why the need to invest them
with this level of mythology on top of that?
It's nothing but pure, unadulterated Boomer Nostalgia that makes people
long for "another Beatles." It's the same kind of moldy-fig conservatism
that made fans of the original New Orleans jazz bands hate big-band swing,
and swing fans hate bop, and bop fans hate free jazz. It's telling The
Youth Of Today that the stuff they like will never hold a candle to what
you liked when you were The Youth Of Today, and it smacks hard of sour
grapes about not being The Youth Of Today anymore.
S
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