Re: (TV) Ray / John Lennon's Jock Strap

[Monica Kendrick <mkendrick@chicagoreader.com>]

>this argument's gonna go nowhere cos it really comes down to a matter of
>slight taste/opinion.... realistically, we're talking bout a shade of
>difference...all 3 wrote in a similar
>vernacular, all 3 were informed by the same cultural currents carrying
>them along (it's only mainstream/overground history that'll give you the
>impression that the beatles were defining the
>generation & if they were, which, well maybe?...if so, they weren't doing
>it deliberately with some sorta master plan), but most importantly; all 3,
>& here's where it gets sticky, were picking
>up on the detritus bob dylan was leaving in his wake as he plowed thru the
>decade faster than the speed of light.
>what the beatles, kinks & who did was to take that beautiful bomb dylan (&
>chuck berry & a few others) had dropped prior & put a particularly british
>spin on it.
>& for my $$$, davies at his best was better than lennon/mccartney.
>
>
yup, Eric said exactly what I was thinking but much better. Thanks.

M


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