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Marty Balin, who writes for the Jefferson Airplane, declares:'The Beatles are too complex to influence anyone around here. They're a studio sound.' Which is as close as
red and black air jordan shoes a San Franciscc musician comes to describing his thing. Their music, they insist, is a virgin forest, unchannelled and filled with wildlife. This refusaJ to add technological effect is close to the spirit of folk music before Dylan electrified it. 'A rock song still has to have drive and soul,' Balin maintains. 'Jazz started out as dance music, and ended up dead as something to listen to. If you can't get your effects live. the music's not alive.'
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San Francisco musicians associate Los Angeles with the evils oi studio music. This
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But resentment of
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Part of the Holding Company puts down the Byrds because:'They had to learn to perform after they recorded. Here, the aim is to get the crowd moving.'
A member of the Jefferson Airplane says of the Beach Boys:'What Brian Wilson is doing is fine but in person there's no balls. Everything is prefabricated 1ike the rest of that town. Bring them to Fillmore, and it just wouldn't work.'
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