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Music Sound Advice - Tales from the Underground by Chris BopstPeople forget how bleak the 1980’s were for music.
MTV corporate creations and neutered, safe as milk rock and roll.
Lee Abrams transformed radio into a form of torture that it continues to be today with tightly controlled 30 song play lists
The only redeeming factor about that godforsaken decade was the music that was being made underground. As the mainstream was infected with Huey Lewis & The News, Journey and Kenny Loggins, a handful of committed souls were creating the last real American musical revolution. The story of hip-hop and rap has been told, but the history of underground sound of the 1980s is the great-lost chapter in the book of rock and roll.
Their single-minded gallantry is summed up when Black Flag guitarist and SST patriarch Greg Ginn’s returned from a week long stay in jail. His first words to singer Henry Rollins were, “Practice is at 7.†These weren’t your typical rock and roll dudes.
At the center of the book is Naomi Petersen, the photographer who cataloged everyone in the 80s underground music scene when the mainstream press wasn’t looking. Without her unflinching lens, the photographic history of seminal acts such as Black Flag, Sonic Youth and Minor Threat, as well as hundreds of others lesser-known bands would not have been preserved. She, like her numerous friends in the scene, was motivated by a genuine love of music.
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