--- Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> wrote: > And
what year did Rock lose its revolutionary
> character (in general)? Can we name a year, an
> album?
> I can remember as a boy of 13 or 14 watching the "J
> Geils Band" on the TV show "In Concert" singing a
> song
> "First I look at the Purse" (that must have been
> around '72 or '73 and thinking: this is
> different,,,these guys are celebrating greed and
> money. I was thinking about that this morning as I
> listened to a "classical rock" station's DJ bash
> Arabs
> and the "bleeding hearts" who were concerned with
> the
> treatment of the prisoners in Guantanomo.
>
> I thought PT Andersen't movie "Boogie Nights" did an
> excellent job of examining how the "me generation"
> 70s
> turned into the greed and consumerism of the late
> 20th
> century.
>
> -Thomas
> --- Hakki Alacakaptan <nucleus at superonline.com>
> wrote:
> > Rapper posturing turned out to be as fake as it
> > looked: Rappers are "bad"
> > only as long as it sells.
> >
>
>
> =====
> "The tradition of all the dead generations
> weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
>
> -Karl Marx
>
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