I liked the band Devo from the eighties. Devo was short not for deviant, but for De-evolution. Their manifesto was that culture was de-evolving, and their music reflected this. Their early stuff was much more complex and interesting than their more succesful later music, which had de-evolved to a level that gave it mass appeal.
it takes a country more concerned with having thin thighs than in having a fat tone. ---------- Ted Burke http://youtube.com/watch?v=-VPUDjK-ibQ&feature=relmfu ted-burke.com
The first thing that comes to my mind is how dilluted the media has become and how that has just about ruined the infastructure for the music scene. Small clubs use to be like the minor leauges- places where talent was allowed to grow. One could eak out pittance of a living on this circuit and the hopes of moving up to the next level with a record deal, better venues, and some media coverage, was in ones hopes. Now it is mostly play for free, open mics dominated by players that would never make it to a stage. It is a great time for people that never will dedicate thier lives to music but a terrible time for those that do. A million views? Heck I bet many of the blues greats played to less than a million people over their entire careers. Walter ---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
The reason this has so many views is because it has a still that looks like some dude was driving his hand to the fork of the "Y." I'm 100 percent serious. That's how it works. ---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne Elk River Institute for Advanced Harmonica Studies
"I ain't gonna sing no 'Home on the Range.' No. sir. Not if it means I rot in here another month. I'm gonna sing what I'm a gonna be! A free man in the morning!" Andy Griffith (as Lonesome Rhodes, "A Face in the Crowd).
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