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Hi,

That would definitely be a bad statement and idea. The real fact was related to sales of the music, and remember that up until the days of Elvis Presley, rock music was not considered important and worth while music, and when it got to the Beatles and Rolling Stones selling millions, changed the ideas ... to where the money could be made ... the idea of the bigger places, was more related to the incredible amount of sales that made the smaller places very difficult for most bands that now wanted a bit more, and deservedly so.

The smaller ones, did not exactly get closed down, although one could say that some just went down by the size of the status of the bands, and the most important one ... no local talent to replace it, since the focus is on the big money and who cares about many local bands. This ended up with a really big issue in LA that got to the courts, and the record/radio companies LOST and had to provide time for the new bands ... which was a part of the new thing ... when KMET was taken down to become whitewash music by 6AM when it came back on. Many of the companies, decided screw it ... we're gonna change the format ... and the rock bands that were local? Screw them!

This has never really been cleared up, and the FCC making sure that a corporation could own all of the stations in LA (for example) killed a lot of clubs, since none of those bands came to town everyday ... too expansive. ... and some places have a lot of small bars and clubs, but nothing that would double up the size to help get a few more bands in ... Portland has at least 40 or 50 of these, and the number of bands going through them is insane, and you know they are all on a bus to nowhere ... tomorrow in Seattle, and next day in Vancouver BC for 10 dollars more!

Again, my take is that it is the numbers thing that hurt the music ... and keep folks out of the clubs and hearing new bands ... and the main reason why I do not enjoy any "numbers" in relation to "progressive" ... progressive is not competing with anyone ... the music is its own ... but some folks (specially one here) thinks that the numbers are more important ... by making sure no one will listen to the bottom 10, of course! 

Hi,

It's no different today, I suppose. Everyone says something and everyone gets trashed silly and looks stupid in the media, regardless of who reports it ... it feels like Mr. T's TV show ... and no one, gets upset with the attitude problem, in the media, about trashing anything, and JA was as good as anyone else, when it came to politics, but that's like saying Joan Baez did not get "lynched" by the mob for opening her mouth. As did many others, and of course, later, the irony of it all, is seeing The Doors's music being used in Coppola's film, in the most destructive manner ... which suggested to many reviewers that the music was incendiary and would get you in trouble ... a very media attitude. A drug fueled madness!

The big issue, in my own paranoid idea, is that all the left handed media disappeared, in the late 70's and were either sold, or just plain closed with no advertising ability being stolen (you sign a deal with them and you won't get our hundred thousand for the Army and Navy!!!) ... and no one said anything. (True fact, btw, as it happened in Santa Barbara!!!) ... and here came the "media" making you think that war was good, or at least in Mr. Kissinger's own words ... "war is good for business..." 

I just kinda thought that by the time things got to Altamont, that we were entering a time that was starting to look scary. And many of the Woodstock bands got some serious money, but the sad part is that at least 10 other bands got nothing and were not even given the ability to showcase its work in an album ... thus, the mark of the _____ (... the saying where the money is, evil resides!) was set, so to speak.

Having seen what I went through in Madison during Kent State and many an event (school has 50K students ... thus you know how independent many were then, and the ugly side of some of the rich republicans (so to speak ... not that democrats did not have the same thing!) was not yet quite visible at the time. But Kent State got immediately shoved aside as a non-event with very sad political consequences. 

To this day, "freedom of speech" has been a problem and the Supreme Court doesn't care, otherwise folks like the well known Mrs Gore (I'll make sure you never get another contract!) situation would not continue and live even better and more so under the past several Republican White House folks.

The arts, should be allowed to "talk" ... so what we're saying is that Picasso's Guernica is just a painting, and not a statement about the civil war in Spain that was totally visible through the window of your house in Madrid and other places! 

Time out. I'm of the opinion that we need to help protect our artists and spokespersons. JA was just as important as many others, some of which got gunned down!