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Two cents more



No tome today (I hear that roaring sigh of relief from the collective
mailing list populace), just wanted to say sorry for sending the same
message twice.  I'm suffering from CyberDyslexia, bear with me.
	Brian in Atlanta.  Hee hee.  Poor Pete (...creepy creepy crawlly
crawlly).
	Wally writes,
"Record sales are only the point where they matter in reaching the
intended audiences. You make it sound that the Who influenced everyone
in the world with My Generation and my point was that most of the people
you claim in influenced, probably never heard it back then since it did
so poorly in the charts and wasn't exactly popular. People can't be
influenced by things that they can't here. Understand?"
	Wally, come on man.  The Stones, Creem, and Yardbirds started their
bands because of music that was never on the charts in England (Muddy
Waters, Buddy Guy, etc).  The lack of chart success or sales for "My
Generation" did not keep fellow musicians from finding it and being
influenced (and no, I'm not saying it influenced everyone; just a hell
of a lot of bands).  The Velvet Underground were an unmitigated flop yet
they influenced piles of bands to follow (Stooges, Bowie, etc).  Forget
the charts if you're talking about musicians being influenced.  
- --Leo