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I saw Roger Dawltry interviewed a couple of months ago and he said the biggest difference between today and 60s/70s was the control or management over the bands. He said the record companies did not understand what the bands were doing so left them alone. Todays it's all about control and the bands are not allowed to develop.
Would Hendrix be allowed to set light to a guitar today?
Would Tommy, The Wall, Sgt Peppers, Disraeli Gears and many more of ever got passed the marketing men today?
Added to this the element of MTV and the video needing to be good and you see where the creative talent is.
Look at todays music and the DVD, then compare it with I am a Walrus by the Beatles and the video. The Beatles were one of the best at videos in their day and it's of the four of them clowning around in a field and people dressed in weird outfits.
In the early days it was all about the music and many of the greats would never of made it today. Not because the music was not good enough but because they did not fit into the marketing mens slot.
And just thought about it, The Beatles learned their trade in Hamburg, I put on The Who for $60 at a weekly youth club dance twice, saw the Rolling Stones in a pub. Dylan played in a dingy basement folk club. These guys worked an apprenticeship that sorted out the wheat for the chaff. To me it seems like todays bands are not schooled in the same way.
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