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re: 60's music: Better musicianship?
Posted on 3/28/15 at 8:07 am to Tigerwaffe
Posted on 3/28/15 at 8:07 am to Tigerwaffe
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Punk and DIY had a big impact on the importance attached to playing skill in rock music. Raw, unsophisticated musicianship was a hallmark of the punk sound, and it changed the way people understood and embraced pop music. Not that this was an entirely bad thing–punk brought a unique form of spontaneity to music and produced–at least to this listener–loads of great bands and songs.
Punk eventually produced some great musicians and bands like The Police, The Clash and The Pretenders. These guys showed the later generation that you could have that spontaneity and urgent sound and be a good musician.
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Posted on 3/28/15 at 10:04 am to Person of interest
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Punk eventually produced some great musicians and bands like The Police, The Clash and The Pretenders. These guys showed the later generation that you could have that spontaneity and urgent sound and be a good musician.
That's a fair observation except, as a fan of The Police, I'm fairly certain they were influenced just as much by Reggae and Jazz as they were Punk, if not more.
And, of course, you're aware of the pre-punk connection between Hynde and The Clash which bled over into The Pretenders. I always thought of them more as New Wave with maybe a mix of Punk as well as a splattering of 60s invasion stuff ... although most people do not realize that Hynde is not British, she's an Ohioan.
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