From: "Casey, Leo J" <Leo.J.Casey@volpe.dot.gov>
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Subject: (TV) The Blue Oyster Cult-Meltzer Contradiction?
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:33:43 -0500
>They were among the reasons that the Ramones were even necessary.
>They may have indeed been "the thinking man's heavy metal band,"
>but to me that's like saying they knew better but persisted with
>the dungeons and dragons crap anyway. It is nothing short of
>incredible to me that the band that recorded "Godzilla" numbered Richard
>Meltzer as one of their number, and traveled in the same circles as Patti
>Smith and >Tom Verlaine. What were they thinking?!
I don't find it contradictory paradoxical that someone like Meltzer
(author of the deep-deep, almost Hegelian tome, "The Aesthetics' of Rock")
could be so closely associated with a band like Blue Oyster Cult.
Maybe he was a little schizoid, or maybe he could easily juggle his
simultaneous
love of serious stuff and serious music (whatever that is), and
cartoon-rock.
I interpreted his whole Blue Oyster Cult thing---especially his
over-the-top
lyrics---as just a goof--having a good time, and parodying some of the
sillier
elements of rock music of the time. I used to own a t-shirt from another
one of 'his'
silly bands, I think they were called The Masked Marvels (the design had
heads masked
ala Batwoman.
>The Dictators are also related to BOC in that they shared the production
team of
>Pearlman and that other guy.
I definitely hear the BOC/Dictators connection, but at the risk of
appearing to be a
no fun guy, I'm totally bored by cartoon-rock. I can get into the Ramones
because of their
great primordial, primitive sound, but I enjoy more serious rock even if it
risks being
called pretentious or too precious. (E.g., someone on this list once
called Verlaine
guitar playing on "Without A Word" as wimpoid---I'm paraphrasing.)
Leo
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