Re:Uppity Rock Stars

[Brian Steven Cady <cadyb@mindspring.com>]

At 03:15 AM 10/15/98 EDT, Leo wrote:

>The only thing that has become a "permanent fad" in rock music today is the
>reverse snobbery which Brian has so aptly pointed out.  I think punk music
was
>an important movement in Rock history.  I think it pumped needed blood back
>into an artform bloated with fat cats and pointless, meandering Opuses.  But
>today all of the long forms of rock music, which The Who, Beatles, Kinks, and
>others fought step by step to bring to us, are now and forever summarily
>dismissed with the all incompassing put-down, "Pretentious".

Or to sum up my feeling about the post-punk music critics that now hold sway:
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss!"

		-Brian in Atlanta