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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] So - The train wreck finally wrecked

From: lsf5275@aol.com
Date: 2011-07-27

The very last of your sentences has us in total agreement. I may have improperly used the word "rediscovered" whereas I meant, "discovered" New listeners discover his music, thereby making him a rediscovered talent.
 
I still maintain that you take particular glee in dumping on anything, "Moody Blues." That's fine with me. I once loved their music though now it's subject matter is less relevant to me. I'm no longer, "...watching and waiting, for a friend to play with." and I realize that I am never going to get an answer "about hate and death and war." I also do not write letters "never meaning to send." If I write them, I send them. But back in the early 70s I wrote hundreds of love letters that I never sent.
 
Regardless, Hayward is relevant to those fans that feel he is. Relevance is purely subjective.
 
As for who brought him up, you did. Martin mentioned Justin Haystacks, whom everyone knows is dead.
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/26/2011 5:09:41 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:
 

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