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From: sherouse@unc.UUCP (George W. Sherouse)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: The disdain for newer music
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Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 08:54:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 08:54:29 1984
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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."