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Re: Rough Music

  • Subject: Re: Rough Music
  • From: Drdaeve@ao...com
  • Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:07:44 EDT
Hey Friendsloversplanes....

...are there good tracks and bad tracks? Really? There's some stuff I'm 
not 
so sure about but I put that down to my failure to properly appreciate 
what 
Gerard/BAs are up to...

...someone talked about

'Gerard's wilful folky experimentation (the original aim of the group 
remember)'


...not sure about that one. Can't hear a lot 'folky' on Bop Art, and I 
remember the Art Objects gigs as a total rock'n'roll experience....I think 
GL/BAs 
have been about creating English rock'n'roll, and part of that has been 
about 
celebrating the lost radicalism of English popular culture....a Skiminy 
Ride 
(Fragile) happened when members of the local gentry/clergy were found to 
be 
corrupt...effigies were paraded and burnt, to the sound of 'Rough Music', 
the 
banging of pots and pans
...there's a good description in Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge....I can 
see 
that GL/BAs are placing themselves in that tradition, but has someone in 
the 
know said that wilful folky experimentation was the original aim of the 
group?
 Not trying to be difficult or controversial at all, just interested, 
really, 
in case there is a Blue Aeroplanes Manifesto out there that I've missed 
along 
the way....

...I got my blue/green Beatniks with Altitude t-shirt in Sept 91 at the 
Vic 
Rooms in Bristol, must have been touring Beatsongs. Wickedly ferocious show

I love it all I really do....

DrDx
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