Woodstock

[Henry Musikar]

Don't confuse rock'n'roll with rock.  Beatles started out by making R&R a
little smarter with some off/jazzy notes thrown in, and one might say that
as they developed, they created, for better or for worse, rock without the
roll.  

If you heard the Beatles when they first washed up on the American East
coast (DC, Ed Sullivan, and Shea Stadium), you almost definitely remember
how much gd fun "our boys" were.

Henry Musikar
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Landseadel

John Carvill wrote:

The Beatles cooked up the Art School shuffle, took scruffy low-class  
Rock & Roll by the neck, fed it latest psychotropics  and made self- 
consciously arty "Statements" like "Revolver" and "Sergeant Pepper's  
Lonely hearts Club Band."  One could say they destroyed "Rock & Roll"  
in the process but a musical infrastructure as flimsy as Rock & Roll  
could be blown away in a heavy downpour anyway. One just might look  
upon Woodstock as that downpour. By the time Woodstock rolled around I  
already turned my back on the new noises and turned toward the past  
and genuine musical revolutionaries like Berlioz & Beethoven.

A huge part of the Beatles Myth comes out of their early "interviews"  
with the New York press corps, where they displayed just as much  
cynicism and "cheek" as the ink-stained wretches of the press, circa  
1964. The Beatles were College students-"Art School" students, fer  
chrisakes-not factory workers, and it showed. Reminds me of Elvis  
Costello-the music critics loved him 'cause he looked just like 'em.

Chuck Berry-there's your factory worker. Helps to explain the assembly- 
line nature of his musical compositions.

Of course, Mick Jagger was on course for a MBA before he figured there  
was a bigger paycheck in playing "black" for teenagers too hormonally  
overwrought to know what hit 'em.