Re: First Excursions into Frippertronics

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 3:56 PM -0800 11/23/02, Travis Hartnett wrote:

>One person's "watering down" is another person's "beefing up". Some 
>people view Led Zeppelin as "watered down" blues and some people 
>hear "turbo-charged".

I view it as kitsch.

>Who started doing something first is really only of academic 
>interest ... There's so much good stuff out there, it's more 
>important to find out and listen to it without fixating on how the 
>file it away in the library.

File it away? Hardly! These artists are still gigging, and I think 
it's important that they be recognized both for their ongoing work 
and for their earlier contributions. Too often the originators (and 
often the strongest practitioners) of a musical genre are forgotten 
while a new generation of less original interpreters cashes in.
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