RE: Nirvana & Society

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

>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.

Whereas, actually the reality never quite lives up to that early genius?  
Everyone seems to hit that wall where their early ideas are spent and then 
they have to work at finding something meaningful to say and some new 
elements to build on.

It doesn't feel as natural that way, and at that point it gets to be work, i 
guess, but still there are musicians and composers who remain notable for 
their whole (long) lives.  Like Macero says in that interview, it seems to 
have to do with an experimental attitude.

What did you think about his comment that the stagnation was caused by  
commercialism, Brian?


keets
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