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The best thing to happen to
alternative music in the '80s has
been its reconciliation with the
music of the '70s. Instead of listing
groups like the Velvet Underground,
the Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Dead
Kennedys or Television as their
influences, the "new, improved"
alternative bands are listing Alice
Cooper, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin,
early J. Ceils Band and Edgar Winter.
Punk rock wasn't just a rebellion
against unemployment, domestic
fascism and the welfare state, but
also against music against Paul
Davis' "Sweet Life," Jimmy Buffett's
"Margaritaville," Terry Jacks'
"Seasons in the Sun," Minnie
Riperton's "Lovin' You" and Abba's
"Waterloo." Pop vacuousness like
this had the same effect on the
punk rockers that the mellow
croonings of Doris. Day, Eddie
Fischer, Mario Lanza, and Crew
Cuts and Tennessee Ernie Ford had
on Elv is Presley, Eddie Cochran and
Gene Vincent.
But the problem with recreating
rock'n'roll is that it rarely has any
thing to do with forward thinking.
Progress rarely has anything to do
with it. Elvis Presley recreated pop
rock by singing blues standards, by
mixing age-old elements that would
never naturally have mixed. You're
not gonna see Muddy Waters and
Hank Williams or the Carter Family
jamming away together naturally.
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By Charles Lieurance
Presley made both styles more
primitive, taking the weeping violin
fills out of country-western music
and the Harlem Cotton Club sheen
off the popular blues.
Motown records changed urban
rock music by adding a cheap edge
to it, by mixing the beat up front on
Motown singles, through discount
production techniques.
The Rolling Stones were the
cavemen of rock 'n' roll, not the
progressives.
Rock 'n' roll progresses through
de-evolution.
Now alternative music is infin
itely varied because it has stepped
back to include the '70s, that most
devalued of musical periods, the
years that gave us disco, that added
Grecian Formula to Dick Clark, t hat
pushed hookless, meandering white
ballads to the top of the charts, that
valued record production above
content.
What might have been disastrous
has proved the saving grace of
alternative music and independent
record companies. College charts
are not considered just a passing
fad anymore and once fly-by-night
record companies like SST, Home
stead, 4 AD, Alternative Tentacles,
Rough Trade and Independent Pro
jects Records are actually managing
to turn small profits.
Although the resurrection of the
'70s has also resurrected the guitar
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solo and the seven-minute epic song,
these long-lost elements are played
with such humor and concentration
on never playing the same figure
twice that any similarity between
the Flaming Lips' lengthy "Jesus
Shooting Heroin" and Iron Butter
fly's oft-resurrected "Ina Gadda Da
Vida" is purely on the stop watch.
In 1981, the Germs recorded one
of the most remarkable live record
ings in rock history. Lead singer
Darby Crash, who died shortly after
the concert, tears rock 'n' roll to
shreds in less than 40 minutes. On
the first few grooves of the B-side,
the Germs' guitarist plays a picture
perfect mimicry of the acoustic
intro to Yes' "Roundabout." When
he's done, he pauses and the
audience holds its breath, momen
tarily torn between their identities
as punks and their love of the guitar
hero. The guitarist had proved that
punks weren't mindless thrashers.
After this momentary pause, all hell
breaks loose. The guitarist attacks
his strings with anarchic vengeance,
smashing out nonexistent chords,
tearing all the sense out of his beau
tiful introduction, an introduction
to nothing.
Although his rebellion is well
taken, we can be glad to have a little
order back, a reference point so we,
as a listening audience, can recon
nect ourselves to a time we've been
hesitant to admit wasn't all bad.
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