Read Mick Farren's latest column in the LA City Beat.
Also, Farren's piece Carved in Stone:
How radio watered down the legacy of classic rock. Not that this is anything new but it's always worth bringing up. Radio has sucked the high hard one for YEARS now, and though we live in hope it only ever gets worse.
3 comments:
Ever the optimist, I don't think it's getting worse, it seems that a physical transistor radio is becoming obsolete. I turned away from mainstream classic rock many years ago and found the college radio stations at the lower end of the dial.
The internet has brought way too much new music, good and bad, into my house. I can't keep up. Between blogs, internet only radio, magazines, fan sites, and myspace a click away - I'm inundated and sometimes, it feels like I'm drowning.
I have more music than ever, quite a bit that I like, but I have no idea who the artist/band is, what they look like, or what they're all about (and I don't care). It's all become a shuffle/hit next until I hear something I like and then it's quickly disposed.
There's plenty out there, I just don't have a deejay to filter it for me and have to create my own playlist. I like it better this way.
That's true...there's plenty of quantity but where's the quality? Meanwhile the commercial outlets get tighter & tighter and worse & worse...
Driving home last night, I heard this on the radio and thought of your post:
And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools
tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel
Radio is a sound salvation...
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