Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!unc!sherouse From: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: The disdain for newer music Message-ID: <228@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 08:54:29 EST Article-I.D.: unc.228 Posted: Wed Dec 19 08:54:29 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:22:01 EST References:Reply-To: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse) Distribution: net Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 23 Summary: Yes, but on the other hand, isn't it just possible that a great many artists (I mean the ones who write their own material primarily) just start out with a limited amount to say? In many of the groups I listened to in the early 70s (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis, etc.) it is easy to trace their development from new ideas with little direction, to realization of just the right expression of their ideas, through rapid decline. The same holds true of the groups I cared about in the late 70s except they had the additional burden of the has-beens as vampiric producers (Eno (T. Heads), Fripp (Roches), Bowie (Iggy), ad nauseum). My point, if I have one, is that in many cases an artist's earlier work *is* better, not so much because they sell out (They *do* sell out.) but because they were more in touch with whatever it was that made them unique. "Why do I want to make music? Hmmm... I forget. Must be for the bucks." Good tunes to you, George W. Sherouse "I couldn't act naturally if I wanted to."