![]() I’m sure there were more such dismissals that I’ve simply blocked from my memory. ![]() Cries of “muso!” blended with angry denunciations of “corporate rock” (usually meaning anything on the radio–which believe it or not, still had some good stuff on it in 1976) or “dinosaur rock” (this usually referred to Led Zeppelin, who even at their most bloated could lift the roof off those arenas) or “circus rock” (which usually meant progressive rock from Yes, Rush, Genesis, etc.). When punk hit, it became impossible to profess love for The Allman Brothers Live at Filmore East or Heart Like a Wheel or Tommy or Blue or Waiting for Columbus or even Mott without risking sneers or worse. I had a sinking feeling from the beginning, really, because I lived through the gobbing and contemptuous dismissals in many of the early punk days and dreaded a repeat of that moment. Lately it seemed to me that the Edupunk discussion had also broken loose in some troubling ways, and that healthy disagreement (and overwhelming agreement) had become polarized and politicized in all sorts of reductive ways. No doubt the folks actually in the epic battle were not so detached. ![]() We’ll return to our regular program tomorrow.ĭuring the all-night Paradise Lost readathons, we’d always share a good laugh when we got to the part where Milton writes “all hell broke loose.” If you hate long and rambling and essayistic blog posts, stop reading now. I’m not sure I’ll get any of this down the way I want to, but I need to try.
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