From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!lanl-a!unm-ivax!nmtvax!greg
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: Re: net.music.frozen
Article-I.D.: nmtvax.175
Posted: Tue Feb 15 08:19:51 1983
Received: Fri Feb 18 07:03:37 1983

In reply to Lance Norskog:

    Why is it necessary that a band constantly come up with new musical ideas?
The Dead and the Who, to use two of your examples, write and perform a
particular type of music.  They both do what they do *very* well, and it
appears, at least from concert and record sales, that there is a strong
demand for music of both styles.  Quite frankly, if discussion of every band
that hasn't created anything new (by which I assume you mean "different")
is put in net.music.frozen, nearly all of the rock discussion would reside
there.  The punk groups have changed little in five years, Fleetwood Mac sounds
just the same as they did five years ago, "new wave" hasn't been new for some
time, and Slade and Led Zeppelin predate modern heavy metal by as much as
fifteen years.
    I guess my point is that no band ever changes very much.  They keep making
more or less the same music until it becomes unpopular, and then they break
up (with a few exceptions).  The fact that the Dead and the Who are still
around (after almost twenty years) seems to me to show that they're doing the
right thing.
    Like what you like and don't listen to what you don't.  Putting other
folks' tastes down is a waste of time.

greg