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WJB Motown's avatar

Governor Walz is 100% correct. Listen to the people and bypass corporate media. Jimmy Page knew this. Led Zeppelin was not popular with the press and got trashed by mainstream media. The biggest band of the 70s were the peoples band and tour after tour was sold out. Power to the People

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MT's avatar

Love Governor Waltz

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Actually, that's not quite true. It was complicated. (I was a music writer in the 70s and 80s, still cover our local music scene.)

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WJB Motown's avatar

John Paul Jones even says in the new movie that the press was not good..

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

It depends on what you mean by "press." Remember it was a very different media time and they got lots of coverage, most of it favorable. What they did NOT get was the stamp of approval from the self-appointed creators of the "canon," the first generation of Rolling Stone writers and other white-boy intellectual navel-gazers тАФ the Jon Landaus and Dave Marshes who set themselves up as the arbiters of "what mattered." That's probably what he meant. (Note: their presence on the Rock Hall nominating committee is why hugely influential metal and prog rock bands have been snubbed for so long. This group considers that music to be the province of provincial blue-collar kids who don't have lofty, opaque vocabularies to describe music.)

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WJB Motown's avatar

This is before social media...intenet and all that. So what Rolling Stone said was huge. I lived through those days. Was on the high school music commitee We had RUSH........founding members of Loverboy....etc

All I am saying is that the power of the people can overide what the media says. This is not meant to be some musical debate.

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jeri yoshizu's avatar

Please do tell

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