Re: Nirvana & Society

[joseph manfredi <joseph9@home.com>]

Brian Cady wrote:
> 
> >Somehow dying young in a blaze of
> > glory lends
> > that mythic quality, and sticking around to deal with things gets you
> > forgotten.  Why is that, please?  Seems like sticking around shows a lot
> > more guts.
> 
> There's an Elvis Costello line I've always deliberately misheard as "the
> romance of an early death." Rock music is hardly alone in this. Imagine a
> Mozart growing into old age and writing works that didn't stand up to his
> earlier stuff. He'd be much less important now. Imagine The Who all dying in
> a plane crash after the 1973 U.S. tour. They'd be as big as The Beatles now
> with everyone wondering how many more wonderful "Tommy's," "Who's Next's"
> and "Quadrophenia's" they would have put out.



	You raise an immensely valid point, but that ONLY pertains to CERTAIN
bands!!  Your suggestion/fact obviouisly does NOT pertain to those "one
hit wonder" bands!! :) :)





							Joseph