Re: in the ghetto

From: Aaron Sommers <adsommers@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat Aug 31 2002 - 11:06:48 EDT

>From: "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
>To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
>Subject: in the ghetto
>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:52:40 +0100
>
>
> I don't very often find myself in sympathy with strident
> black lady writers. But I did a couple of weeks ago,
> reading in The Guardian on the great anniversary, an article
> headed: 'He ain't MY King.'
>
> The woman in question, whose name I failed to register,
> was protesting violently at the theft of 'her own people's
> music' by this acneous greaser from the world's trailer park.
>

Oh, come on. Since when did a group of people "own" music? The fact is "her"
music was combined with the style of country music and gospel (Elvis'
original gigs in churches) to form what many now call classic rock and roll.
I find arguments like her's bogus, while were at it, why don't we claim Paul
and John "stole" the music of the Everly Brothers? Every group walks into a
studio through the doors left open by the innovating group before them, and
but I wouldn't expect a bitter no talent like her to accept Elvis' title
anyway.

> Someone with a provenance such as his could hardly avoid
> being a humourless vulgarian subject

If you can expect some kind of groomed civility from a boy who never
finished high school and grew up in Tupelo, Miss, with an alcoholic mother
then that's your problem. I have always thought all famous rock stars, the
great performers usually they are, have backgrounds that beg for the profile
of a "greaser". Would we have the same Sinatra is instead of the Ghettoes of
Hoboken, he grew up in Greenwich, Conn.?

-Aaron

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