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There is a lot of truth to the claim that rock music got wrecked at the end of the 70's. In The History of Rock and Roll (ten documentary set from Time-Life), which I highly recommend, the documentary about 70's rock talks about how Peter Frampton's album Frampton Comes Alive became the biggest selling album in history. That same year, Fleetwood Mac's album Rumours reached outrageous sales numbers. The ability to sell on that level got corporations into rock music, where before it was smaller companies that were run by people who had a lot of interest in the artistic aspect of the music. The record producers would get great bands in their studios and say, "You're the artists. You know what to do. Play your stuff, and I'll record it and sell it." So the artists, the people who understood the art the best, were in charge of the music. When the corporations got so interested, they bought out the smaller companies, the ones that had been producing the legends, and ruined everything. They started saying, "Hey, according to our marketing research, you will sell more if you do this crap and that crap. Our goal is not to make people love this music. Our goal is to make people like it just enought to buy it." And everything went down the drain from there.
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