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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:35:21 CST
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- From: Leonard Watkins <ISTS024@UABDPO.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: More catagorization horror stories
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu,
- 28 Jan 1993 10:22:02 CST from <USTS060@RUST1.DPO.UAB.EDU>
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- On Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:22:02 CST Dave said:
- >
- > I'm gonna have to take issue with you on this one. Have you
- >every heard Willie Mae (Big Momma) Thorton? Go ahead find her
- >version of _Houndog_ then listen to Elvis. I'm sorry, there is no
- >comparison. The white audience (the mass audience, the ones the
- >record labels made music for) could not handle the raw energy of
- >Black Music. Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Fats Domino played weak
- >versions of the blues music that was so popular among the black
- >audience.
- > I find most early rock 'n' roll hard to listen to. Especially in
- >the wake of the real, hard core, gut wrenching music that was
- >available at the same time. Rock 'n' Roll was just baby pap, to
- >pacify white, teenage audiences.
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-
- What in the world do you think all these groups we've been mentioning is.?
- Pretty much everybody out there is for the the white teenage audience
- except for Jazz, Blues, and classical. Almost all of it even the so called
- Alternative is very, very weak compared to Big Mama , Robert Johnson, and
- any of the early J, B , or C musicians. The only thing out with close the
- energy and conviction (+ other adjectives) is Rap, sorry but i beleive
- that to be true. The white audience cannot handle the rawness of the raw
- rap....Sorry it just came out...........L.W.
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