“I do believe there
are cyclical changes and it’s funny because people last year were saying “Rock
is dead” and all that. Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a
different form. I know that in the late 60’s people were saying “Jazz is dead”
that rock had completely wiped out Jazz O. K. , meanwhile now here we are like
15 years later Stanley Clark and all these people are selling tons of records.
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he’s playing Jazz whether I like it
or not. Or like in the early 70’s when we had the reaction against acid rock
and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor
and everyone went acoustic and that.
Things do go in cycles so I never believe rock was really dead it was
really finished or had it, it just comes back in a different form. But as far
as this stuff being really new, really different that’s something else again.
Even the Sex Pistols were playing old Chuck Berry licks.”
- uddrag af radiointerview med rockkritikeren
Lester Bangs. 13. maj 1980.
Selvom følgende interview med
Lester Bangs, som den australske radiojournalist Sue Mathews lavede til en række
udsendelser om musikkritik, har cirkuleret på nettet siden slutningen af
halvfemserne, har det først fanget min opmærksom i går via fantastiske Dangerous Minds:
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