Sorry to go a bit off topic but i feel it's relevant because i really
get the sense that the same thing has the possibility of/is happening
again with what i'm into now. I saw a Lexus add with a jungle soundtrack
for Christ's sake!!!!
sorry for rehashing the ongoing "corporate devils" controversy,
Argo
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>From: dj herb
>Reply To: herb@icenet.no
>Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 1997 6:06 AM
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: Jamiroquai / Stevie Wonder dispute type thingie
>
>Santos L. Halper wrote:
>
>> Well obviously we're dealing with two polar opposite opinions on
>>>Jamiroquai
>> here - one is the jaded
>> acid-jazzster who loves the genre but is fearful its idiosyncracies >will
>> result in its demise, the other has a "teeny bopper" fascination with >the
>> band and is blindly unabashed in her infatuation with Mr. Kay.
>
>Thanx, im flattered ;) Im pretty new to Acid Jazz myself but youre
>exactly right about my fear.
>
>It seems every genre of music ive been in to have been commercialiced
>in
>one way or the other. When i was really young i was heavily into punk
>and hardcore (mostly the washington straight-edge bands like Youth Of
>Today, Minor Threat, Embrace and Palehead),how do you think I feel now
>when i see Green Day and Offspring? ;) Allso, in the mid-80's i became
>THE biggest Red Hot Chilli Peppers fan EVER...and everyone know they
>sold out.
>Then theres Hip Hop...ive been into Hip Hop ever since i first saw
>Beatstreet in 1985 and everyone knows what today's state of Hip Hop is
>(ofcourse the underground scene is alive and well, but people that rely
>on MTV *might* just get the wrong picture).
>
>So...After a 5 year or so long love affair with Acid Jazz i gotta say
>that the thought of what might happend really DO scare me... Id hate to
>see the genre, or the type of music, being raped by major labels and
>the
>media.
>
>..glad i got that off my chest :)
>dj herb
>
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