GRANDE BALLROOM

Keelan: If a big enough section of man is attempting to make music—it’s life— a very powerful force, which is what it’s into now. I don’t really see how anything harmful can come out of it unless the whole reaction is crossed with something totally evil. As long as there are honest efforts in music, then music is sacred.

Creem: But over, say, the last fifteen years, there has never been a large concentration on music, and a very large concentration on the business of music—the machine, and now that we have the concentration on the actual music too—then the machine could be the necessary evil. As for example, a company will release between three and ten new groups per month, and 90% of those groups will die because any money being made from their albums will go to feed the machine of ad-man, promotion-men, etc.