OFF: Johnny Ramone

[Ted Jackson]

>>> cea at CARLAZ.COM 9/17/2004 4:14:58 AM >>>
I mean, since when have kids not listened to whatever was surrounding
them and been influenced by it.  How could people who were kids when
the
first Green Day album broke big _not_ be influenced by it?  If this is
_so_ different than anything that's happened before?


You read the guitar mags, and this is crystal clear.  So many old
geezer
guitarists will say they saw Elvis with a guitar on TV--even though it
was
essentially a prop--and they had to get one.  Skip a generation, and
you'll read how guys were obsessed with the guitar after seeing Kiss.
And these are invariably guys who went on to make great music, far
outstripping their 'influences...'



Sure, its unfortunate that so much money and effort is spent to ensure
people hear stuff that isn't very good, but that's true for the
mass-marketing of anything.  The gourmets just gotta work a bit harder
....


Yep, and the people who 'get it' will always uncover the good stuff...


theo