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- From: dmandl@shearson.com (David Mandl)
- Subject: Re: A simple question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.213317.576@shearson.com>
- Sender: news@shearson.com (News)
- Reply-To: dmandl@shearson.com
- Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
- References: <16061@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:33:17 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- In article 16061@auspex-gw.auspex.com, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.091227.1@fib.upc.es> guijarro@fib.upc.es writes:
- >|I just want to raise a simple question:
- >|
- >| << What kind of music will endure??? >>
- >|
- >|As we are suppossed to be progressive lovers/haters, please
- >|try to be objective choosing the bands and authors you think
- >|will survive...
- >
- >I'm not going to go into any specific bands but you pose an interesting
- >question. Someone awhile back was talking about classical composers writing
- >music that will endure with that in mind. Since many progressive bands
- >have a classical influence one would believe that progressive music would
- >endure. Compare that to much popular music that seems only to be produced
- >for the quick buck and it seems to validate the importance of progressive
- >rock as a musical genre.
-
- Wooohoohoohoohoohoo. This defies logic. Let's see..."A Fifth
- of Beethoven" (disco version of Beethoven's Fifth, ca. 1975)--
- yes indeedy, a timeless classic! Listen, I can't _think_ of
- anything more dated than "In the Court of the Crimson King" (and
- I'm a Crimson fan). First ELP album? "Tarkus"? "Tales from
- Topographic Oceans"? ANYTHING by an Italian progressive rock
- band of the early 70s? This music was embarrassingly dated
- by 1978 or earlier.
-
- As for "progressive rock" being pure art versus the cheap disposable
- commodities of popular music, don't kid yourself. Were you around
- in 1974 when every magazine article on ELP was dominated by quotes
- of the price of Carl Palmer's drum set and Greg Lake's hand-made
- Persian rug? Do you think the Yes reunion was done out of love for
- the music?
-
- [at this point, our correspondent looks over his shoulder, sees an
- army of glassy-eyed, heavily armed Yes freaks headed in his direction,
- and bolts from the room in panic...]
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- Dave Mandl | Opinions expressed here
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