45 REVELATIONS
A lot of people can’t appreciate a record like Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” on purely ideological grounds. Some (you find this breed mostly in England) believe rock is a bloated, senile zombie, a crystallization of all that’s wrong with capitalism, and that only in black and Third World musics does genuine proletarian expression (the only valid music, it goes without saying) manifest itself.
45 REVELATIONS
KEN BARNES
A lot of people can’t appreciate a record like Lou Gramm’s “Midnight Blue” on purely ideological grounds. Some (you find this breed mostly in England) believe rock is a bloated, senile zombie, a crystallization of all that’s wrong with capitalism, and that only in black and Third World musics does genuine proletarian expression (the only valid music, it goes without saying) manifest itself.
Others (and you find most of these in America) feel anything remotely commercial, on a major label, is corporate rock, synthetic by definition and obviously incapable of supplying the raw power and uncut thrills that well up spontaneously from the lowbudget underground. There are still people in this very nation who contend anything played on commercial radio is worthless.