Re: Kids and music today

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

They have very short careers and very little support from their record 
companies, I'd say.  They're lucky if they can parley their fifteen minutes 
of fame into a second career.  One thing that helped the sixties/seventies 
rock 'n' rollers from selling out was that their music made enough money for 
thim to live comfortably.

keets


>  The big classic rock support from high
>schoolers comes from, I think, the lack of a real voice for "Their
>generation."  I think many identify with the shere emotion and intensity 
>and tremendous musical talent which characterized the 60s and early 70s- 
>many bands who were great but didn't cave in to commercialism and remained 
>committed to pure music.  We don't really see that today as "bad boy" Snoop 
>Dog is doing mainstream commercials and guest spots on sit-coms.  Mr. 
>"cop-killer," Ice T, is playing a cop on TV (not that I condone his lyrics, 
>but i wouldn't censor him).  Too many of today's music stars are sell-outs 
>and "no-talents."
>
>Kevin Mc