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| From | <jim@groovedisques.com> |
| Subject | Re: All Things Must Pass (or else they'll create intestinal |
| Date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 8:25:52 -0400 |
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Stewart wrote:
>
> There's another music list I'm on, where I believe I'm
> about 5 to 10 years younger than most of the other
> regulars (38 at the end of June)...
If it's the list I'm thinking of, that makes you only 5-6 years younger than the core set of participants. Some of them just got jaded and out of touch at an alarming rate.
> and I once wrote a moderately long post about the
> importance of 1984 in my own personal musical
> growth...And there was at least one person who at first > had genuinely thought that I was writing some kind of
> deadpan parody of those sort of people who had gotten
> terribly disenchanted with rock after the '60s, until he > realized that I wasn't kidding and I really did like
> all those bands when I was 13 and 14, and still like
> them now...
I remember that! Watching the confusion was kind of funny on all levels.
> The idea that there were people who had strong teenage
> associations with bands he had disparaged at the time
> simply had never occurred to him.
Now that I think of it, I hope I wasn't that guy:)
> And John nails it perfectly: whether folks mean for it
> to be there or not, there is a strong stench of
> generational vanity to the claim that SGT. PEPPER and
> PET SOUNDS are the alpha and omega of rock and roll.
> It's one thing to say that they are your own personal
> cornerstones, but there was an argument made that,
> indeed, everything that came after was, implicitly,
> inferior and imitative. Which...no. That's not for you > to say.
As someone who has stood on stage and made a case, with full knowledge of the actual absurdity of my claims, that 1983 was the last great year in rock 'n roll, I think statements any of us make such as these are only worthwhile if the person making the statement uses that pompous intro to help articulate musical values he or she believes in and would like to see preserved/assessed by present-day bands and fans. If you don't take the time to say WHY your beloved era of music was "the best," then saying such things are pointless. And if you don't make the effort to listen to WHY some geezer from whatever era is trying to articulate a set of musical values, then you may have no business talking music.
Jim
http://www.rocktownhall.com
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