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...or maybe "Rock is Dead" and Jann Wenner, MTV, the Mall
and Clear Channel Radio all conspired to kill it...
video killed the radio star,
-dp
--- Gavin Ehringer <> wrote:
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> Jann Wenner, a male, started Rolling Stone basically from
> scratch in the 1960s. Like Hugh
> Heffner a decade earlier, Wenner built his little
> magazine into an empire. While Hugh has a
> hands-on interest in Playboy (and who wouldn't), I think
> Jann probably has abdicated most
> of his editorial responsibilities to the editors. Much to
> the detriment of the magazine. To
> his credit, he took chances on writers like Hunter S.
> Thompson, Ken Kesey, P.J. O'Rourke,
> and helped launch the careers of many great rock
> photographers.
>
> Somewhere along the way, Rolling Stone stumbled into
> middle age, and like those of us
> who were birthed in the 1960s, it tries to be cool and
> youthful, but somehow can't hide
> the fact that it is now bloated and slow and
> unattractive. Sigh.
>
> Sadly, I don't find the other music mags any more
> inspiring...Spin, Blender, etc. They sure
> seem to lean heavily toward skinny, nerdy, pansy-looking
> white musicians (Franz
> Ferdinand, Mars Volta, Beck), the ghetto-licious (J Lo,
> Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas), or
> ghetto-thug (50 Cent).
>
> I realize this is today's music "scene," and maybe I am
> just nostalgic for bands in which
> people played instruments instead of black boxes. It
> seems so long ago when the charts
> were topped by Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Red Hot Chili
> Peppers (okay, the Chili Peppers are
> still hangin' in)? Not great musicians, but rebellious
> rockers who parents could dispise. I
> can only say, I found hope in seeing Green Day win a
> Grammy. And I miss the great Stevie
> Ray Vaughan, a working class white guy with attitude,
> muscle and a splintered Strat.
>
> I think the music world is due for a sea-change, away
> from the fashionable teen idols,
> flop-wristed college boys, bling-bling rappers to the
> rebellious. Who is with me? C'mon!
>
> Okay, enough of my rant. Maybe salvation will rise-up in
> the form of a mind-altering surf
> band!
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