My, my … hey, hey …
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“In just about every country except England and America there are strangely strong family ties. Very few countries need rock & roll. Very few. It’s America and England that need it, and probably Germany. But France and Italy, no way. They don’t need it. Rock provides a family life that is missing in America and England. It provides a sense of community.”
David Bowie , 1973
( “Bowie amongst the Barbarians” by Tim Ferris)
I asked some people what comes to their mind in 2006 when they hear the word Rock.
America: Rock as a cultural heritage, part of the American Way of Life
England: Rock, reshaped as Britpop: Career oppurtunity for people lost for any other market, behind finance and media the third economic power …
Germany: Rock became completely irrelevant, a remote reservation for right-wingers … or left-wingers , or boring old farts …
France: It’s still a bit … bizzare …
Italy: It still sounds like singing zucchini …
But borders vanish into the electronic oblivion, myspace is yourspace is ourspace and provides a sense of community…
“Fuck you ! ” ( Marc Zermati 2006)
Schlagwörter:sfx, société général, strange-world | Abgelegt in société général
„He (Bob Dylan) used to come with his acetate and say: ‚Listen to this, John, and did you hear the words?´ I said, that doesn´t matter, the sound is, what counts – the overall thing… you don´t have to hear what Bob Dylan is saying; you just have to hear the way he says it.“ John Lennon
Als ich noch sehr jung war, war Rock noch kein abgedroschenes Ding, das auf Kultursendern propagiert wurde. Also, was soll’s, solange es noch Leute gibt, die Rock ‘n Roll m a c h e n, weil sie ihn machen m ü s s e n? (Auf die soziologische Notwendigkeit weist das Bowie-Zitat ja hin.) Auch der Jazz lebt ja immer noch, tausendmal toterklärt, immer mal wieder komisch riechend. Dem Blues geht’s allerdings gerade wirklich schlecht, aber auch der kommt wieder hoch. Uns geht’s noch zu gut.
Completely d’accord.