Rock is the main earner for the music industry, right? "The need to move new product" is a plausible hypothesis.
--- On Tue, 8/25/09, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] after SY retrocity...
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 25, 2009, 10:55 PM
> So, here's the question: Why
> are there no Rock and Roll standards like
> there are in Jazz, Blues and Folk?
> Where did the idea that such things were "covers" - and
> therefore lesser -
> rather than "standards" - and therefore nods to greatness?
> Me, personally, I LOVE a good cover - Mark Lanegan's
> version of The Leaving
> Trains' "Creeping Coastline of Lights" comes to mind - but
> hate most cover
> bands (and most cover records, even Giant Sand's Cover
> Magazine [and they
> are my favorite band]).
> A
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