All great musical movements start with one brave pioneer unafraid to do something different, brave enough to put their head above the parapet and say, ‘enough of the old way’, ‘this is the new sound’, ‘this is the way forward’.
From Robert Johnson’s startling, intense reworkings of traditional song topics, to Captain Beefheart and Hendrix’s reimagining of the delta blues into a psychedelic format, to the Stooges electrified, stripped down proto-Punk.
The courage and vision needed to step into the future and reject the safe, accepted standards that have gone before cannot be overstated.
True artistry, true iconoclasm, true creativity is often misunderstood, mocked and maligned when first presented to its unsuspecting audience…
Unfortunately, none of this applies here and this is just a thick Geordie mumbling incoherently into a camera.
