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Miami Steve
David McGee
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How do you feel about most of the music you hear today?
I think it's really mostly emotionless, compromised crap. Everybody's perspective is shot. It's a reflection of the times to a degree. Rock and roll is now an accepted, legitimate business, just like General Motors, and it wasn't five years ago. So now the fat cats are taking over and running things and there isn't that little bit of rebellion, that little bit of violence, that little bit of sex. It's gone. And that's a big mistake.
Do you think what Dave Robinson is doing with Stiff Records is a needed shot in the arm?
Absolutely. I'm really into him in a lot of ways. He's doing essentially what I would like to do in that he doesn't spend a lot of time on his records and they come out sounding great. He's really got what I think is happening now and what is going to be happening in the future. In most cases he's got groups at the one level where punk rock should evolve to. Elvis Costello is fantastic, and Robinson's got a bunch of other people that really knock me out. Sad thing is that I wouldn't have heard them if he hadn't personally played his records for me. You're not likely to hear them on the radio. That's a real shame. Where do these acts go? If Top 40 radio won't play the Jukes after they've sold 130,000 they're certainly not going to play Elvis Costello, who sells maybe 20,000 or 30,000. It's a shame because it's really valid, it's exciting. It's wild stuff but it's good music.
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Whoaaa doctor
David McGee and Barry Taylor
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Whoaaa doctor!!! We've got ourselves a fight! At an Elvis Costello concert in Dingwalls, England, Stiff Records' major domo Jake Riviera was floored during an altercation with Island's marketing man, John Knowles.
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