[I]n a recent video interview Love discussed her antipathy towards the music of Bruce Springsteen, explaining that her main issue was one of instrumentation. “Saxophones,” she said, “don’t belong in rock'n’roll.”Yes, you inane drone, I'm as antipathetic toward B.S. as anyone but it's not the instrumentation that makes B.S. a suckfest of Broadway illusions & approximations of the rock.
Mme. Hole has made her video "private". Chicken.
Probably pertinent; the late Derf on the horn was about as "rock'n'roll" as one gets.
But there are so many more, too: the vibrancy of Junior Walker’s playing on Shotgun, for instance [...] or what Robert Christgau called the "solitary new-thing saxophone" of Steve Mackay on the Stooges' Funhouse. Think how those Little Richard records would sound without the sax.
Courtney Love is a moron. I wish Poly Styrene were still around to play "Oh, Courtney Up Yours!" with a saxophone.
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