The Krautrock Space

 

Julian Cope is saying some nice things to get people's attention, because words of wisdom are not getting around, and neither is the information and history of how these things happened.

 

If you watcn the special on Krautrock, you can hear these folks talk about it ... BIGGGG time ... but it doesn't mean much to you, or you have no idea ... how ... all along the watchtower ... is also a theme in this whole thing with its lyrics ... but we're not capable of making that connection.

 

The whole thing in LA and SF is the same thing.

 

London is the best illustrated of these scenes ... because a lot of folks in there had good taste and a love for good music and good art. This did not, only show up in music ... it was also all over the films ... it was all over their theater ... considered the most modern and well done the world over! ... with an exceptional taste for experimentation for which Peter Hall and Peter Brook both became "Sir" ... and this was all quite visible, and rock music was not the only thing doing it.

 

In the long run, I think that Krautrock may have become more appreciated, but it's really hard to tell folks about Wim Wenders (work with Can), Werner Herzog (work with AD2), and many other writers that were also a part of the scene that helped make it important and memorable. There's film right there ... and I can not tell you if RM Fassbinder was there as well or not, but his attitude in films would go really well with some of these bands! The discussions in that series about the music educators is also not discussed or found to mean much of anything ... we just want "progressive", not a professor -- specially me I bet!

 

I appreciate Julian ... and he is doing his best with the "fans" from this generation ... but unless you take a look at the whole art scene, it will all feel like an isolated piece of music from nowhere land ... so Adagio in G means nothing to us all and we don't give a damn ... it's baroque! ... now give a a fu__________ electric guitar to play that!

 

And we have not yet talked about hesse, kesey, burroughs, and so many others! They don't exist since we only care about anything other than "progressive" and none of these musicians were intelligent enough to have read anything else? I sincerely doubt that the world over, including you!