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On 26/07/2011 21:17, lsf5275@aol.com wrote:
No, your point was about Justin Hayward. He was just part of his generation.
Actually my point wasn't specifically about him at all. Someone else brought him up.
Much of his music is/was timeless and will be relevant long after we are gone. People will rediscover Tuesday Afternoon,and Nights in White Satin over and over again. His relevance might be to a narrower audience, but no musician is relevant unless someone thinks they are... ever. All it takes is one. More is better, though.
That's just simply not true. The difficult thing is that I think you know it. If something is an entity that 'people will rediscover' then it is an apparent truth that it has to be undiscovered first,and that process is well underway. They may well be your personal favourites, but ask your average 20 or 25 or 30 year old what they know about The Moody Blues (to name your specific) and the overwhelming likely answer will be a blank stare back at you. No one know. No one remembers. Far fewer ever care. Music is an evanescent thing, so get used to it and enjoy what you have. At best they might name NiWS. But that's all, and that is by an Herculean effort.
His audience is narrower is because his audience is dying slowly. That is how stuff works. And I have no issue with that at all.
Mike