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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
....I totally embrace any possibility that has the potential of making one person's taste expand ad infinitum, what with an array of blogs and websites at your disposal, which should encourage you to find out about a different perspective of what went on in the 60's, 70's, 80's etc.
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I think this is a brilliant point - there's the possibility today, which wasn't as viable an option so recently as 10 years ago, for someone with a minimum of resources to find out an entirely different narrative on the 'dawn of rock' (60s/70s). Personally, I never really adhered to the idea that the best music produced in the 60s and 70s was the music that was being written about in Q (or wherever); that's not to say that music isn't 'good', it's just that someone like the Monks or the Shaggs (who aren't particularly obscure in the context of this forum) meant more to me than the Doors [etc] did. This narrative of seeking out 'more interesting' stuff than the 'mainstream' is ubiquitous when it comes to 00s music, but doesn't seem to abide (for many here) to earlier decades.