On 1 Nov 2007, at 10:25, robin wrote:
Good point Martin.
Another point that's missed here is, by and large, musical
revolutions happen in time with other youth/cultural changes. These
can be brought around by changes of society (rock and roll due to
teenagers having money) or changes in the drugs that society does,
amongst other things.
One big reason house and techno became so big was the association
with MDMA, particulalrly in the UK youth culture of the 80s.
I total agree, it gave kids a degree of separation from the
generations before, something that was their own.
I remember when people who still drank when E was at full swing where
referred to as "beer monsters" but the main problem as I see it with
the E generation is they all went back to their day jobs on Monday
morning.
m
