The problem is, however, that he does not say anything more interesting about music then 'rock sucks, mozart is OK' (maybe besides his reducing music to a kind of educational tool, which i find deeply mistaken), and it makes the discussion with him pretty useless. And as a person who has spent much of time on listening and creating music at times close to rock, I feel very offended by such treatment of this kind of music. Marcin ----- Original Message ----- From: Herb Levy <herb@eskimo.com>
Despite my disagreements with many of his ideas and much of his taste, I've got to point out that boiling his complex argument down to "does he really think rock sucks?", coupled with a statement like
I have not had the time to pick the book up, so I'm going on what my friend has told me.
is symptomatic of what he considered to be an overly shallow approach to culture on the part of many people living under the influence of the US.