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even rock history will be about musical personalities not about the perpetuation, dissemination and evolution of musical strains. "this guy fucked someone else's girlfriend. they did drugs together." but what did keith moon bring to drumming?

or tell me how galaxy 500 mutated into contemporary techno.

or how the roots of ambient music go all the way back to satie.

wait, there was this cool pbs documentary "latino usa" (i think) that got into that-- how salsa is the nuyorican melding of cuban rhythms for example. it's made up of a few good episodes. but that shit is rare. you don't read this stuff often.