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Originally Posted by TheNiceGuy
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Yea... this guy sort of lost most of his credibility with me when he said The Beatles and their contemporaries (i.e. The Who, Beach Boys, etc) were the first to fuse "true" artistic expression/musicianship with popular music and that their (The British Invasion's) work was the most important musical "revolution" in the 20th Century. In doing this, he almost completely dismisses jazz and starts off on a short and negatively-opinionated tangent about jazz listeners. His obsession with these bands also resulted in him leaving out other important figures in 60s rock music, such as: Captain Beefheart, The Monks, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, The Red Krayola, and The Velvet Underground.
Other than all of that bulls
hit, however, I feel he makes a few decent points about the future (in other words... the end) of rock music...