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- From: miller@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Phil Miller)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:24:22 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: The end of Rock LONG LIVE ROCK!!! Oops. One more...
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- Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
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- Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll
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- In alt.rock-n-roll, fjs@vulcan.ksu.ksu.edu (Frank J Sereno) writes:
-
- > Here is a little food for thought written be critic David Browne of
- > 'Entertainment Weekly' about the Clinton inaugural concert series........
-
-
- > "It's ridiculous to continue thinking of rock as standing for anything it
- > once did--rebellion, anxiety, teen hormonal frenzy, distrust of authority. And
- > the rock inaugural is also definitive, saddening proof that rock 'n' roll is now
- > merely music, merely entertainment...ready to be stuffed, mounted and enshrined
- > as feel-good nostalgia for baby boomers."
-
- What a garbage pail comment. This critic is just stroking his yuppie
- readership into thinking that they were "the generation".
- Rock didn't stop with Fleetwood Mac -- it's still out there if you know
- (or want to know) where to find it.
-
- > R.I.P. Rock Music
-
- No, don't get fooled again.
-