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Marsh: He's just exploded that. He's the right per
former to cone along at the right time. Just like in
the '503, for some reason or another, it had to be
someone who waa white and southern, and I think
by the same token, riht now it had to be someone
who wa3 Hack and androgenous and bourgeoise to
the extreme.
It just blow3 up these cultural myths that black
people don't want to hear white people and white
people don't want to hear black people, which te just
a lie anyway.
MFCB: Do you see Jackson as having made the
trail easier for other blacks?
"When I'm denied access to the music
that black people make, not just
black people lose. I think I lose, and
you lose and we all lose . . . The strug
gle is because my rights, your rights
and everybody's rights are violated
when anybody's rights are violated."
Marsh: No, I see him making the trail easier for
everyone. When I'm denied access to the music that
black people make, not just black people lose. I think
I lose, and you lose and we all lose. So, I don't see it
that way...The struggle is not to get some separate
but equal thing, it's not to get black people's rights.
The struggle is because my rights, your rights and
everybody's rights are violated when anybody's
rights are violated. It comes back to the fact that my
cultural rights have been impoverished when I don't
get to hear these people or see them.
MFCB: Is the apartheid breaking down because
of Michael Jackson?
Marsh: No, it's not breaking down because of
Michael Jackson, it's breaking down because the
audience does not want to be segregated. Michael
Jackson happens to be the person history threw up ,
to demonstrate the point.
MFCB: So he's more the beneficiary than the
cause?
Marsh: Well, yeah, but you wouldn't want to it's
just like history isn't made by personalities, it's
exemplified by them. And, I just don't like to get into
that real superficial thing of this guy did that and
' this guy did that and there's no connection between
there and ther e.
I mean, what do you think it means that within six
months either way of Elvis making his first record,
the Supreme Court had made the Brown vs. Board
of Education decision. You think that was a coinci
dence?...! don't think it's a coincidence. Just like I
don't think it's a coincidence that within six months
of Michael Jackson making it very, very clear that
white people didn't want segregated musical cul
ture that AOH stations started falling apart, and
that became a dying format. And what came back
was a much more integrated, Top 40 style of
programming...
Top 40 dsereticn
MF CB: What do you see as the ultimate effect of
Top 40 or Contemporary Hits radio or whatever
they want to call it? Is it good? Is it bad?
Marsh: Well the thing is unless you make some
fundamental changes it's the same thing if you
look at Vietnam and Central America, why doesnt
the same thing happen the same way. It's because
the corrections that needed to be made in the
course of society as a whole haven't been made,
therefore the same problem comes up over and over
again.
The rise of Top 40 is at the same time inevitable as .
a response to finding out that they dropped the net
over us again, putting out the big racist lie and
whatever and S3 they're exposed, something like
Top 40, something more integrated, more positive,
will come up. But the clamps will go back down
again unless something changes in the philosophy in
the methodology of the way we do business in this
country in my opinion-
In the sense that we've been talking about Michael
Jackson, what he symbolizes, I don't want there to
be another Michael Jackson. Next time there's a
Michael Jackson, I want him to be recognized from
day one as a great performer. And this whole stupid
divisive issue of race, is just, not forgotten about
because that's so many hundreds of years down the
road in this country but it's secondary as it should
be to his talent, to hi3 emotion and the things that he
projects through his talent.
MFCB: Have you had a chance to take in the
music scene here at all?
Marsh: No, I just got here last night. The only thing
I really know about Lincoln and music, I guess, is
Charlie Burton.
MFCB: What is the state of music journalism
today?
Marsh: Clearly if I was satisfied I wouldn't have
started my own publication and taken the kind of
economic and other risks that are involved. I would
say the problem is that things tend to be discussed
in more or less formal terms and a lot of the content
never gets discussed. It's too easily dismissed.
MFCB: What effect will all the recent record
mergers ultimately have, not only on the business of
music, but on the product itself?
Marsh: My answer to this tends to be a little bit
more hard-lined than many of my Marxist friends
would subscribe to. Why would anyone suspect the
record industry is going to be any different than any
other industry.-Right now, the motion of the Reagan ,
government is toward complete laissez-faire capi
talism, and that leads to lots of mergers. That means
in this so-called recovery, all the wealth that's gen
erated will be used by one big company to buy
- another big company, which is socially non-productive.
But why would you think the record industry
would somehow be immune from this simply be
cause it's glamourous, whereas steel industry isn't, is
a mystery to me...
Is it bad for music i3 a better question. Or is it bad
for people? The answer is yes. It's very bad for peo
ple. It's bad for people in terms that it eliminates
jobs, it's bad for people in terms that it squanders
resources. And it's bad for people in terms of that it
squanders and respresses creativity...
Movies shown as Q-card finale
The crazy antics of
Larry, Moe, and Cuity and
one of last year's pop
movies The 7all were
featured as a kst hurrah
for the KFMQ Q-cards
Wednesday and Thurs
day nights at the State
Theater, 1415 0 St.
Keith Miles, a deejay at
KFMQ, said" the station
held the event as a life
style promotion. "It (the
Q-card) is a tool we use
to connect advertising
and promotion. We find
out what kind of listeners
we have this way," he said.
"This (the movies)
seems to be more popu
lar with the age group
that KFMQ b trying to
attract," said Bob Gul
land, manager of the State.
He said The Wall and The
Three Stooges appeal to
different age groups.
"We're really pleased
about the turnout," Miles
said. Gulland estimated
that there were approx
imately 300 people pre- Miles said new Q-cards
sent for the Three Stooges will be out in about a
films. week.
MFCB: What do you listen to when you're not
reporting or reviewing?
Marsh: All kinds of stuff. Could be The Pretenders
this week and the Stanley Brothers next week, gos
pel music the week after that, Chuck Berry the week
after that...I always seem to come back to rhythm
and blues, because that's where I started out I listen
to a lot of surf music, I listen to a lot of bluegrass
music...There isn't anything I don't listen to
including bad music, a category I do recognize.
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