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| From | <stratoclay@triad.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Loud criticism of The Who? |
| Date | Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:32:45 -0500 |
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i agree with you Michael
The integrity of the songs remain...an artist creates the art because he has to create it. Who cares where the painting hangs- as long as it was created.
Not that it is "art", but if someone wanted to take stratocruiser's "Copyshop Girl" and turn it into an afterschool special, a high school musical or rearrange it into a Barney tune... I would sign up... my kids gotta eat....
back to lurking
clay
---- Michael Myers <mmyers1446@yahoo.com> wrote:
> interesting point..... I guess I'm from the "artists have to eat, and they own intellectual property that they can license in order to make money to live" school of thought... do you feel the same way about authors who sign agreements for their books to be turned into movies (that may end up being kind of Hollywood-schlocky) ? I'm really not trying to be a bear on this, but I'm always interested in what is at the heart of criticisms like this... I guess another question for you is AFTER Pete signed over the rights for Tommy to the Broadway producers and was finally able to see what their interpretation looked like, do you think he should have walked away from the contract if in fact he thought that it wasn't, what, rock'n'roll enough? just truly curious....
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> From: "lowtunes@aol.com" <lowtunes@aol.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
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> Subject: Re: Loud criticism of The Who?
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> My thoughts: It's not that the Who didn't live up to "...hope I die before I get old." It's that they DID live up to their album entitled "The Who Sell Out". Whether it was the Broadway-ization of Tommy (anyone who saw it knows what I mean) or selling soft drinks or E-Trade on TV, Pete seemed not only to sell out quietly, but with relish. That's what eats at me, a long time fan, the most.
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