CIRURGICAMENTE EXTRAÍDO DA CAIXA DE COMENTÁRIOS DO POST ANTERIOR

(doador: manuel)

"We were just a rock band. This is how rock bands had evolved to that point. I know that punk has tried to revise this whole history. The purpose of punk was to hijack the destiny of rock music. The purpose of punk was to keep rock music from becoming smarter and to keep rock music from becoming more literate and to keep it from everything it is destined to be. The evolutionary path from 1956 to 1975 or 1976 to make it even. It's moving in a straight line. Elvis' great contribution was that he brought the narrative tool of abstraction and abstract thought to rural blues and hillbilly music, which at that time were dying forms. So the very beginning of rock music is the introduction of sophisticated abstraction and the use of sound as a narrative tool into a folk music. If you follow the line of evolution it grows ever more sophisticated and sound as a narrative technique grows and is subsumed into the mix very progressively until there is an explosion at the very end of the 60's, early 70's of analogue synthesisers that were creating just pure sounds. The influence of bands like Silver Apples, Can and Eno, the Kevin Ayers stuff, Cale. By the mid-70's rock music was really on the verge of dramatic leaps in terms of literateness. You had a bunch of bands appearing at that time like Pere Ubu and Talking Heads and the Residents and Television and a number of other groups, and all of the Cleveland groups were poised on the borders of a brave new world and that's why punk was invented - to stop all of that". (David Thomas, Pere Ubu)

(2007)