RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

--- naught AT nil.com wrote:
> Duncan Murrell <duncan AT rattlejar.com> wrote:
> > 
> > And then, the most absurd thing of all is
> including the Grateful Dead 
> > on a list of anything. San Francisco "rockers"
> must really love that 
> > one.
> > 
> 
> Really?!  I'm not any sort of obsessive fan of the
> Dead but it's kind of
> hard to ignore their contribution to American music.
>  And for people who
> like guitar music, Garcia had a wonderfully
> inventive spirit that I
> think had no real parallel.  Maybe you're objecting
> to them being used
> in the same sentence as "rock?"  I might make the
> same case for at least
> some of the other acts listed.


I think one of the points is, if you are going to have
a list like that, do you have to go back that far to
find a band worth mentioning?  Ben Folds Five?  Not
around.  Grateful Dead, not around.

I mean, even talking about that list is kinda
justifying its existence.  I would have been much
happier had it been summed up with a resounding, "HEH"
and left to die.

Maybe I'm just pissed because they left James Taylor
and Clay Aiken off our list.

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