Re: in the ghetto

From: James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 07:50:09 EDT

Thanks....I think that was indeed the film :). That criticism is pretty common - what really angers people is that guys like Elvis made mega millions while the people who inspired him stayed in poverty. I had one friend get absolutely ballistic on me about Steve Winwood's popularity in the US in the late 1980s -- the guy knew exactly where his riffs came from and hated to see them lifted like that ;).

Without due credit.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: "Scottie Bowman" <rbowman@indigo.ie>
To: <bananafish@roughdraft.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:52:40 +0100
Subject: in the ghetto

    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.

    Someone with a provenance such as his could hardly avoid
    being a humourless vulgarian subject to manipulation &
    exploitation by the equivalent of a pimp for prepubescent
    girls. But to see the con trick perpetrated on a bunch of
    elderly, white middle class jerks into the condescending delusion
    that they're communing in some kind of original, primitive
    experience - well, that's just sad, if it weren't so nauseating.
    
    PS - I suspect the film was 'The Committments' - though I
    wouldn't have been caught dead attending it either.

    Scottie B.

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