Reading today's Permanent Damage column.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=10
This I find kind of interesting.
Quote:
Bob Dylan: "People keep trying to revive rockabilly, and the bands that are doing it spend most of their time listening to old rockabilly. The truth of the matter is, the guys who made the original rockabilly records were listening to a whole bunch of other stuff. You can't play rockabilly without understanding the rhythms of the big bands.
"Rockabilly is the poor man's big band. It was too expensive, taking them big bands on the road. Small combos like the Louis Jordan Band emphasized the beat, and used electric guitars to get the same effect with a smaller, more manageable number of musicians. Rockabilly added a little bit of country influence, and whole lot of energy, and a new genre was born. Whatever music you love, it didn't come from nowhere. It's always good to know what went down before you because if you know the past you can control the future. But be careful of the flip side of the coin: those who do not understand the past are doomed to repeat it."
Grant goes on to talk about how people who want to be the next Jim Lee should not only look at Jim Lee, but the people who inspired Jim Lee.
And, well, they both got a point, but I would imagine that would end up making you just a better Jim Lee.
To me, I think it would be far more interesting to see what happens to rockabilly if you shove industrial or hip-hop in there. Do what they did way back when, take a style and shove another one on top of it and see what happens. Could be cool, could be shit, but come up with new combinations instead of trying to be the best damn recreation of something old you can be.
