Gladsome Feogan

The actual influence of woodcrock on Culture has been, deservingly, minimal. Outside of the industries that continue to profit from its myths, there is nothing lasting to show for it. The music of lasting value being created today deliberately scorns the muddled "message" proffered by the "flower generation". If you want influence, there is John Cale. He worked with minimalist composers LaMonte Young and John Cage in the '50's, the Velvet Underground, and most significantly, he produced 4 of Nico's seminal albums between 1968-81: The Marble Index, Desertshore, The End, and Drama of Exile . Nico's Marble Index is considered by many, including myself, to have made a lasting impact on Culture. It is a pivotal record that informs the myriad forms of goth, industrial, noise, modern classical dark folk, etc. Her lyrics are protypes for ritualistic disections of the psyche that is so common today in alter-no-tive musick. There is also Tim Buckley, Gram Parsons, Merideth Monk, Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, Suicide, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kraftwerk, Can, Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazelwood, etc. As for film, the best film about the letdown of woodschlock is Withnail & I . It blast the myth completely to shreds and is bloody entertaining as well. Good luck on yer assignment, G.F/4