January 17th 1970 (1)
Understanding The Underground
By Frank Zappa, 1 p (2) 21st Century Pop People, P-Z
(1) A lot of the underground acts don't care about making a hit record.
They're interested in artistic expression. The underground sounds are raw. But
the Industry should remember that the music sounds that way because of the
environment the kids live in. They are a different kind of person. Some of
their bodies are chemically altered and they have leisure-time activities that
would be very foreign to record company executives. They have a concept of music
as an art. Most A and R people don't know anything about music, but look for the
commercial potential. You should care about the artistic merit. You call our
music noise, but don't bother to look underneath it for the chords or melody
lines. You don't understand the underground's music – there is definitely a
musical generation gap. (read
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