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Originally Posted by BastardofYoung
the scene they were in. to understand impact, one has to know the scene that spawned them. It is like a person born in 1992, taking about what was impactful in 1966 because they studied it in a book, doesn't work. First hand experience with it is more reliable.
The people were were there would be better able to put to words the impact of The Sonics.
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Then by that logic historians' and scholars' opinions on past events are useless. Now, I'm not a musical historian by a long shot, but I think I can know how revolutionary or important an album or recording is just by looking at its innovation and uniqueness. I wasn't alive in the 1910s and 1920s, but I don't need to to know how revolutionary Russolo's and Varese's recordings and compositions were.
When it comes down to it, all The Sonics were were a garage band who played old rock 'n' roll songs in a loud manner -- influential or not.