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: there has always been a consistency in the
: marketing of the 60's. I guess some company
: owns the way the story is told.
: "Woodstock" doling out endless
: reissues with a few bonus tracks here and
: there is a corporate business model,
: reselling virtually the same thing an
: endless number of times - and there are
: still at least 6 hours worth of unreleased
: audio and video that will be inched out on
: the 45th, 50th and 60th anniversary
: re-sells. (I won't be buying it, I've
: collected it all on my own )
:
: Tim Leary has no relevance these days, but
: there will always be bands interested in
: listening to the later Beatles albums, cover
: bands the pour over Stones and Tom Petty
: music.
:
: Current legends even have their past careers
: exaggerated. Jimi may appear to be the
: guitar icon of the 60's, but his records
: weren't really major sellers in their day -
: nowhere near the level of say Creedence
: Clearwater. Historical revisionism has made
: him, the Byrds, Grateful Dead, Cream appear
: "bigger" than they actually were.
: The Dead are said to define the 60's, yet
: their first four albums didn't even make the
: top 40 and they hardly played anywhere but
: CA and NY. As long as the characters
: involved are around to tell and sell the
: same old stories, they can perpetuate their
: own myths.The keyboard player from the Doors
: has been telling the same 6 Doors stories
: about Jim for exactly 40 years-every
: interview, every time.
: Every female country signer claims Patsy
: Cline is their biggest influence, but how
: likely is it that those people have ever
: heard more than 2 songs from her? Its just
: sort of the standard thing to say in an
: interview, because they've heard it said so
: many times by others.
:
: I'm not sure why SAC would resent other
: bands for being the more defining bands of
: their era. A 1 hit wonder doesn't hold much
: clout compared to major bands. Seems to me
: they resent their label for not promoting
: them and for giving them lame outsider
: material to record (perhaps the band should
: have shown better original material to begin
: with and the label wouldn't have forced
: other songs on them). If they wanted a
: bigger audience, doing silly generic hippy
: dippy (trying to hard to sound overly
: trippy) stuff like Black Butter wasn't the
: way to go. A 6-minute heavy jam in its place
: would have rocked and put SAC in a more
: legitimate place in music. And of course,
: if they wanted more songs on the radio, you
: all knew how to play the payola game , just
: didn't really get the chance to get out
: there and play it. But with CCR, Mountain
: and Steppenwolf jamming out in 68/69, SAC
: were already out of touch with what was
: really going down in music. Ed probably saw
: the future in Skynard, and the other guys
: fell by the wayside, when they could have
: just changed the bands name to something
: more marketable, and moved into a different
: style/phase in their music.
: - a producer's perspective -
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: Did you ever resent the press for virtually
: trying to coerce you into accepting social
: figureheads like the Beatles or Tim Leary as
: your generational leaders,Gurus,and mentors?
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