Re: A Quick Sell Out

[Jeff Williams <jeffw@mxim.com>]

> 
> Next, The Dave Marsh essay is but one man's opinion about the Who's 
> "creative Process", and it's relation to the culture at the time.  
> Frankly this is boring, and I would rather have Pete Townshend talk about 
> the Who's creative process than Dave Marsh.  

Plus, I immediately suspected anyone who has ever written for Rolling Stone,
for in general it sucketh... and has for many many a year..




> The Chris Stamp essay, on 
> the other hand, is much more interesting. This is anthropology: a man's 
> observations of the behavior and events that were going on at the time of 
> the album's inseption.  It is in the events in the lives of the people 
> involved in which the creative process can be most readally observed.  
> They had cash advances against the royalties to produce songs. This is a 
> huge part of the creative process: monitary motivation.  Marsh's
> generalizations about Sell Out's relation to the era and its forshadowing 
> future projects are his opinion as a musicologist (is he a musicologist, 
> I thout he was in Gang of Four), not as a participant in the Who's 
> environment.
> 
Yep, uh huh