more Re: [peel] Prog doc on BBC 4

[rockerq@...]

<<Thank god punk came along and threw up all over it!>>

And I didn't even mention The sacred Drum Solo (Audience bored rigid while 
pretending to agree how fantastic the skilled tub thumper is. Musicians get half 
an hour backstage to do drugs or shag groupies or drink brown ale)

or the traditional two hour wait for the self-important rock gods to deign to 
get onstage in the first place (cue cries of "Wally")

Or the facial hair

Or the songs written in three different time signatures as this is "breaking 
the barriers of what can be acheived in the rock idiom" (impossible to dance 
to or otherwise enjoy, obviously)

Or the axe embedded in the Hammond Organ.

Or the pretentious cod-Wagnerian lyrics delivered in shreiking falsetto, 
usually misogynist or proto-fascist utopian codswallop.

So if you're a 15 year old Grammar School Darkness fan, don't worry, just go 
and watch "This Is Spinal Tap", there'll be another fad along in a couple of 
months.