Re: [ARSCLIST] Fun little blog

[Ethan Clauset <ethan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think you looked at the site very closely, the people who  
contribute to it have interests that are much more wide ranging than  
rock and roll.  I don't fully  appreciate the waxidermists' obsession  
with outsider folk music and private press psychedelia, but I have  
discovered many interesting records through the site & its forum.   
They are doing a great job of presenting information about performers  
and music that would otherwise be completely obscure, their records  
pressed in small quantities and probably not present in any  
institutional collections.

Ethan Clauset



> Date:    Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:56:11 -0500
> From:    "Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Fun little blog
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger and Allison Kulp" <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>
> > http://waxidermy.com/
> Quoth the reader/witness...FEH!!!
>
> This site is a/the (one? or more?) sample of the vapid commentary
> on music-in-general (198?-2007), posted by a typical 21st century
> self-appointed "expert in the area of things musical"...who, like
> all of his/her/its ilk, assumes that REAL "music" arrived with
> (1) The debut of the Sex Pistols...thus "punk rock"...
> (2) The invention of "hard rock"/"heavy metal" (see under "Led
> Zeppelin revival concert" and prepare to be scared...?!)
> (3) The debut of Elvis Presley, and thus of "rock and roll!"
> (select one...!).
>
> 99.9% of the current "music lovers" are blissfully ignorant of
> the fact that popular music actually existed well before the
> invention of "rock'n'roll!" IF pressed, they can cite Frank
> Sinatra and, possibly, Tony Bennett...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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