Eddie RUKidding wrote:
downer mydnyte wrote:
^Arthur Lee or Marc Bolan??
How can someone complain about a man yet still go out and play his music for a living? It's beyond me. If Zappa died in '71 I'm sure he would have less people bitching about him. All those people would not have to begrudge him his sustained success. He'd be a tragic story. Murdered on stage. If those grumbling Mothers could have made it without Zappa they would not have been whining. George Duke never complained.
Also, Steve Vai would be doing jingles.
Adrien Belew would be on a cruise ship playing shitty covers with his band Sweetheart. For sure, Fripp and Bowie NEVER would have discovered him in some dive down in the American south.
Too True

I never realized Marc Bolan was considered obscure or a footnote. T-Rex was always pretty popular in England and some of their songs are still played all the time on the radio.