Prog Bands I Dislike

Hi,

The personalities, is inevitable, when one gets so famous ... were they not so much the darlings and the "sell" for the media, no one would have paid attention to their words, or likely the music.

But, I do think that what the history of rock music has shown that them, along with others, the likes of The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, for example, set a new course that didn't exist is music at the time, and as such, are the main reason why we can hear so much and appreciate so much music today ... not to say that someone else could have done this, but if you had an AM radio (in America) and were listening to it, you know that the Beatles were a breadth of fresh air, something that almost all the "dislikers" do not see ... it's bubblegum music, versus music with more content ... how can anyone compare any of the Beatles early stuff to just about anything in the Billboard's top lists at the time.

And just to be fair, in Madison, WI there was a DJ on the radio that was trashing Janis, Jim, and others for being pretentious and stupid, and trying to be "original" ... he called both just stoned out ash-holes that did not know music from their farts. No kidding on this!

Today's listeners, for the most part, have no idea how much "fighting" and "standing up" for their work they had to do and be, so they could be what they wanted to be.

I find it weird that someone criticizes DB for using black and PR musicians and such, when the idea was to NOT SOUND like everyone else ... and we're criticizing his choices ... pretty soon everyone here will be criticizing me for using a PC, and not an HP, or an Apple (you won't catch me dead with anything Apple!) ... and at the end of the day, their originality is not understood COMPARATIVELY to the time and place ... these folks are comparing it to what they like ... or don't like, so "different" music means ... it's bad!