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From: dce@tekecs.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Why my favourite group broke up
Message-ID: <1851@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Aug-83 10:40:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 17 10:40:28 1983
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Bullshit!

First of all, those groups stayed together because none of the members
in any of the groups had enough individual talent to go solo (look
at what happened to Ringo). Now you say to me, what about Townshend.
Sure, I admit he's done well with those two solo albums, but he didn't
leave the Who to do them, and the albums are not that great.
Another reason those groups are still together is that it is a job.
What else could they do to make that much money?

As far as creativity, the Stones and the Who can not even come
near what they were doing in the mid-sixties. Can you compare
any of their current songs to "My Generation" or "Live with Me"?
The Dead are the same old hippies that they have always been, and
are allowed to stay around just to make us laugh at what the
hippies were like.

As for the Beatles, they were a famous group, but not a great one.
If it weren't for the media hype, the Beatles would never have
amounted to anything. Their music was played to the point that
everyone recognizes all of the songs. This caused a whole
generation of older brothers and sisters who had Beatles albums
that were just about all that the young kids had to listen to.

Since I had no older siblings to be brainwashed by, I bought
my Beatles albums, listened to them, and trashed all but
one, "Beatles IV", which has some nice old songs that influenced
a lot of other bands of the era (Jerry and the Pacemakers, etc.).
I was able to listen to the Beatles with an objective point of view
and I still find their music boring.

The reason groups break up nowadays has a lot to do with money
and artistic freedom. If you don't sell enough albums, you
don't get to make any more. If you can't afford to tour, you
can't sell enough albums. If you can't make any albums, why
stay together.

As for Jagger and Townshend being great performers after all these
years, I admit that's true. Just remember that it's not age
that makes you old, it's attitude. Henry Fonda is old. Reagan is
old. Buddy Rich is old. Lot's of people are older than Mick and
Pete and still going strong.

			David