Rolling Stone Magazine recently released their latest ‘list’, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters” rollingstone.com). Let me repeat that title, “The 100 Greatest Songwriters”. Their descriptive line states “From Brill Building tunesmiths to Punk poets, from Woody Guthrie to Max Martin, the visionaries who defined music history.”
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Frank Gutch Jr: If Music Is Dead, You Bastards Killed It! The Life— A Seattle Legend in My Own Mind… (plus notes)
Posted in Opinion with tags Amelia Jay, Bright Giant, Carleigh Nesbit, Child, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eric Lichter, Frank Gutch Jr., glass harp, Green Monkey Records, Gypsy, Indie Artists, Indie Music, jeanette beswick, Jerry Garcia, Jimm McIver, Mick Flynn, mitch dalton, music, Music Radio, music videos, radio, Ralph J. Gleason, Records, Research Turtles, Rival Sons, segarini, susan james, The Life, Tony Bortko on March 17, 2015 by segariniThat’s right. You! You, the Incipian Heed, the Flaccid Peni, the Ego Centered! You, the ones who are always talking about how much they know about music and fart facts in concentric circles. You, who complain that there is no good music anymore while listening incessantly to the decades-old— music which by all rights should have been put to bed long ago but instead is held high by listeners who stopped listening as examples of what music used to be. Well, you can kiss my Rival Sons-loving ass! All of you who don’t know that band, pucker up.