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  • 14 editorial February 17,1999 an ^^.-jjBWWh MfliWI "^^TJi'M 9E flMh SB .dPSfa aM| Editorial Music Must Change "Music must change," said Pete Townshend of The Who during the Punk Explosion. Even though all such revolutions ultimately fall into mainstream stagnancy, they arc. initially, exciting and fascinating if only for the fashions and controversy. Compare the Carnaby Street Mod look with, the safety-pins and leather of Punk, or the Seattle grunge look. Contrast tragic heroes like Keith Moon and Jimi Hendrix to Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain. Some, like myself, feel the quality and class of the originals surpass the newcomers, but that's just my generation talking. Still, the alternative camp has changed music for its generation, who are coming of age as I write. When I began my career at WCU, I became involved in the local musician pool as a bassist and keyboardist. There was an audience for live rock and experimental concerts, and not just in the role of glorified jukeboxes. People actually enjoyed hearing live bands, however amateurish and sloppy most might have sounded. Our efforts reflected the change and variety in popular music, and even though few clubs existed, groups formed and reformed to perform in Battles of the Bands and Open-Mic Nights at the old University Center. Now this has radically changed, and I feel for the worse. I returned last year to discover a strange phenomenon on our campus. A few notable bands such as Hammerloop still plied their trade locally, and various groups enjoyed occasional exposure thanks to Last Minute Productions and their music coordinators. But the audience had disappeared!!! At the local concerts 1 have attended, fewer than twenty or thirty people joined me. What were the others listening to? Re-Examine your CD collection and ask yourself if you have room for something different. Popular music had splintered into two very disparate but equally perplexing factions. The acoustic trend is pleasant and inoffensive, but in regards to musicians as myself, amplification is a sacrilege because of concerns about hearing loss. While that is a concern for musicians who frequently expose themselves to high decibels, an occasional live concert with a full band is looked upon by businesses in Waynesville and Asheville as an unpleasant prospect. And yet we have the other camp, which relies on loud, repeti- tive bombardments of computerized music. While technological accompaniment is helpful to some bands, total reliance on this form defeats the need for human musicians as the computer does all the talking! Whatever happened to the enjoyment of human performance? Dance clubs and unplugged concerts deprive rock musicians of a platform they once enjoyed in Western North Carolina, where they can bring divergent instruments into the mix. It seems that instead of changing and improving music, current trends have made it diffuse and uninteresting for many talented players. We are in danger of a stagnant period akin to the late 1950s or the mid-1980s. This letter is a plea to all our readers to re-examine your CD collection and ask yourself if you have room for something different. Get out there and support the working bands, and expand musical horizons. Stage your own private artistic revolution while everyone else stagnates. Rock on. JeffLeatherwood Contributing Writer by Will Horack X* is Confer* in*** fyoVJr Jo\a$ <xvculoJdle £or Collet &TIADU.AT£ Phone: 227-: Terry K. Roberts, Editor Donald Costello, Managing Editor Seth R. Sams, NewsEditor Phoebe Esmon, Features Editor Daniel Hooker, Sports Editor Crystal Frame, Production Manager Nichole Hardy, Copy Editor inian -mail: carolinian^wcu.edu Open 2 p.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Staff meetings are held on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Contributing Writers: Alex Esmon, Jeffrey Sykes, JeffLeatherwood, Mike Poston, Jamie Flynn, and Will Horack (Cartoonist) John Moore, Advisor The Carolinian welcomes letters from its readers. Letters printed contain the expressions and values of their authors. The Western Carolinian reserves the right to refuse publication of letters containing defamatory statements or obscenities. All entries must be signed and no longer than 250 words.
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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