Re: (TV) 2 cents on Rap/dissing Richard.

["SCOTT ALDRICH" <scott.aldrich@worldnet.att.net>]

Right on.

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>From: Jeff Strell <jeff.strell@usa.net>
>To: tv@obbard.com
>Subject: Re: (TV) 2 cents on Rap/dissing Richard.
>Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000, 5:46 PM
>

> Part of the problem is trying to establish a system of reference where you can
> rate musicians against one another.  Maybe it shouldn't even be tried.  Billie
> Holiday (also a junkie who burned out too soon) and Eric Dolphy are
> established icons, with decades having gone by to cement their reputations.
> It's almost unfair to measure any of the punk generation against them.  For
> one thing, part of punk's fun was its ephemeral nature  -- it was of the
> moment, and no one was looking to establish a long term reputation.
>
> Hell is an acquired taste, and a fringe one, sure.  No one's going to argue
> that he's had as great an influence on his field as those jazz giants had on
> theirs.  But speaking as someone who was coming of musical age when Hell's
> fire was burning brightest, I can say for sure that his music was timely,
> affecting, exciting, all the things that great rock'n'roll is supposed to be.
>
> Thunders is a different story.  I would argue that his guitar style, in its
> minimalist way, established a type.  No one had done it before, and countless
> people do it now.  Not to rate musicians against one another or anything, but
> I would put him on my short list of best and most influential rock guitarists
> ever (with Berry, Richards, Verlaine, Hendrix).
>
> - Jeff Strell
>
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