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i am 41 - dead spot on generation x - i want to love music
i have seen gil scott heron perform - he is amazing - couldn't he be called
the first rapper ?
i bought a new french vinyl pressing of "it takes a nation of millions" - the seminal
classic -
2 years ago, and i liked it, but it did not hold up like i thought it would - i liked
that record when it came out.
i am white. i am middle class.
maybe that alters your perspective of my view
i just bought "ready to die" two years ago - i like that, but it is so dark and sad
i honestly believe, from the perspective of music , there is more to be learned
from stevie wonder 1968-1974 than the entire history of rap - rap has always
been recorded - it is something that was always very marketed - there would have been
no rap without mtv - it is very visual -
it has never fared well as a live performance medium - my suspicion is that anyone
really charismatic and smart didn't get through the door as we live in a world
like that - our generation does not have a nina simone, a malcolm x or a
muhammed ali - they don't exist - even one of them or 1/3 or 1/5 of them -
that may be more about the media than the art or the people or the culture
i believe mainstreet has been carefully watched for going on thirty years
why take chances ?
(look at what happened with bob marley - the love and peace and world communism guy
whose music is probably the most listened to on the planet in 2007
if bob marley was alive right now he would be a very, very powerful man who
could alter world events)
maybe my early years were so formed around hearing 70's music on the
radio that my mind is closed.......i worked on electronica to 2" 16 track several
times in the past month and i really like it....
i agree with you that the boomers control everything and have destroyed much in their
path - we will be listeing to "satisfaction" until we are in our seventies....or
longer
be well
- jack
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