Jeemo wrote:Why differentiate public schools? Because they're fee paying? Because they're selective?
Curious to know, why the animosity
Not animosity (well, a bit of residual class warfare

) so much as a theory I developed back in the late ’60s early ’70s that a lot of the English bands coming through that I particularly disliked (what later got to be called prog) were part of a second wave of the mid-60s bourgeois backlash against rock and roll, recasting it after the success of the Beatles as something that could be tamed, made 'classier', by adding things from classical music, like that Moody Blues stereo demonstration record. And this second wave often featured academically trained musicians who brought more of that DWEM stuff in (I should point out that I'm talking about how I felt then - I actively hated classical music when at school, and learned nothing in the music lessons that I ducked out of as soon as possible, largely because I was told I would grow out the music I loved, which made me angry as hell. They were right though, it just took half a century or more than they thought

). And a fair few of those musicians had learned at schools, which by the very nature of having music departments were either grammars or public schools, or new comprehensives, but in all cases they were taught in the classical tradition. And they felt the need to progress, and that stuck in my craw.
I grew to hate the tendency, I thought it was a direct personal attack, I guess. I was just coming out of my teens at this time, was rudderless after losing my father a couple of years before and about to meet the bad crowd who would get me into psychedelics and put me on the road to the self-actualized hurricane of cordiality and creative energy that entertains us all today. So that probably coloured things, too.
Of course, none of this really exercise me any more, save for hyperbolic choleric purposes in the persona of Rayge, but I still retain a residual curiosity about the notion that a private education, and the opportunity afforded by the time, curriculum and facilities of the average fee-paying private school might have replaced the art colleges that were the ferment of the bands of the 1960s, and thus changed the course of popular music by applying a different aesthetic. I was looking for examples to test the theory, really.
Cheers
Ray
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