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> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:44:42 -0700
> From: Jason Tinkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Weller
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> > Mod was a phase for him.. he's gone through it already.. You will get
> > through it too someday.
>
> Says who? He doesn't seem to think that he's done with it. Or don't you
> remember his "bury me a mod" comments from a few years back?
>
> I guess what it comes down to is not that he's making 40-year-old's music,
> but that younger folks in the mod scene won't admit to it, and still claim
> that it has something to do with mod...it doesn't. That doesn't mean that he
> hasn't done anything worthwhile over the past 15 years, but just call it
> what it is. Free, Traffic, Humble Pie, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Nick
> Drake, Dr. John & Robert Wyatt were not making "mod" music...
>
Thank you very much. That about sums it up. NOBODY wants him to still
pretend he's 18-23 or whatever. What is MOST irritating is him clinging to the
mod trappings, and all the sad bastards that follow him like the freakin messiah
regardless of whatever crap he records. Open your eyes people, you're as
bad as the "60s purists" that you try to put down. Just as blinded, but with
medoicre material unfortunately.
But HEY, it's NEW! So you can rehash the old
"mod is modern" argument, and stand drooling before your idol on stage while
he belts out Crosby Stiils and Nash tunes! Tres mod.
Sorry, I was having one of my ever changing moods,
Dan
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