From: martin@address-in-sig.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:24:22 -0700, Bil wrote:   
      
   > I picked up a copy of Hepworth's new (2017) book.   
   >   
   > FZ gets only minor or passing mentions.   
   >   
   > Here's perhaps the most meaty:   
   >   
   > "The interesting thing about the new rock stars whose images were   
   > beginning to be sold in the wake of festivals like Monterey was that   
   > they were made of such apparently unpromising clay. Frank Zappa, Jerry   
   > Garcia, Pete Townshend and Janis Joplin would never have been stars in   
   > any other medium or at any other moment. In the case of Joplin, as in   
   > the case of Zappa, they were probably more powerful as icons than as   
   > musicians. Zappa pictured on the lavatory; Janis with the beads: both   
   > were as likely to be found on walls as on turntables. The first   
   > big-label Big Brother album did well, although it took producer John   
   > Simon months to drag a performance out of the band that he was happy   
   > with. Janis’s future was as a solo star."   
   >   
   > So no particular new light on FZ.   
   >   
   > An interesting analysis of the social phenomenon of celebrity based on   
   > commodification of music, notwithstanding the lack of focus on FZ.   
      
   Indeed. It still seems really strange that anybody except photographers   
   would fixate on images of musicians rather than how they write and   
   perform music, but I suppose in the case of tone-deaf commentards its   
   just another example of "pay peanuts and get monkeys"".   
      
   So sad.   
      
      
      
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