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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Damballah Wedo)
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Subject: Re: Fred Frith and Robert Fripp
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Date: Fri, 18-Oct-85 22:51:02 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 18 22:51:02 1985
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>                    ...  It seems THIS last generation is more obnoxious about
> its music than the previous one, wherein our parents used to tell us "you
> mean you don't know who Benny Goodman is?"  Today, you get people like Scott
> Muni playing "Layla" on the radio and saying "Well, if you don't know what
> that is, too bad!") 
> -- 
>                       Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr

Not to be perverse, especially since I gnerally agree with you, but not
having heard Eric Clapton (or/and Benny Goodman) disqualifies one from
having any sort of perspective on current musical developments. Surely
you would not say that current rock'n'roll exists outside the strem of
thirty years of rock history. A willingness on the part of current
musicians to acknowledge their influences might help them avoid the endless
recycling that plagues rock and pop. Like the sudden renewal of ersatz
psychedelia. Or the short lived rockabilly revival (remember the Stray
Cats?) Nice ideas that got bogged down because no one thought of acknowledging
the Byrds or Gene Vincent, and wound up redoing the work, until the
momentum died and the public turned to someone else.

You are right that as one generation of artists exhausts its talent, its
children will find other people to get excited about. That does not erase
the contributions of the elders.
-- 

Marcel-Franck Simon		ihnp4!{mhuxr, hl3b5b}!mfs

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