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From: jhadams@iham1.UUCP (John Adams)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Artists Selling Out
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 15:50:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 25 15:50:46 1984
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There is a group that is getting very heavy airplay in the Chicago
area.  The group plays every style from rockabilly to heavy metal...
You name it they do it.  The vocalist
is excellent.  The guitarist is fast, clean, and tasteful.  The 
drummer keeps time and never overplays.  The keyboards are more
beautiful than early Genesis.  The backup singers have more soul than
Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin combined.  The saxaphonist/flautist
makes Ian Anderson sound like a tuba player.  And boy, can their
producer produce.  They are a pure joy to hear.  But what I want to know
is, if these guys are so good .... why do their records stink??

Their records stink because they don't play with feeling.  They only
record in a sterile studio environment.  They never sing out of tune
or hit a wrong note.  There's never any hiss or hum.  They let every
successful artist in the business influence them.  Their songs always
get a bullit on Billboard's charts.  They could care less about
political causes.  All they care about is making a better wage and
supporting their families.  They were a much better group when they were
starving and still learning to play their instruments.  Somewhere along
the line they lost their honesty.  They sold out.  They are no longer
true musicians.  No way am I going buy their records and contribute
to their success until they contribute to mine.

Anybody else out there feel the same about this group ??