Lay It on the Line: A Backstage Pass to Rock Star Adventure, Conflict and TRIUMPH by Rik Emmett

Author:Rik Emmett [Emmett, Rik]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Musicians, Music, Rock
ISBN: 9781778521829
Publisher: ecw press
Published: 2023-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

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Art doesn’t really imitate life. If it did, much of it would be shitty because lots of life sucks and gets boring and depressing. Art must enhance life: feel bigger than life; make a spectacle of itself. It doesn’t have to do all these things all the time, but it must do some of them. It must feel deeper, more profound. It must speak to the ages. It must provoke, entertain, and satisfy emotionally, sensually; it thrills, mystifies, or reduces you to tears of joy or laughter or grief. It shocks; it comforts. It must enhance life for a large-enough segment of the public to keep that art alive, making life worthwhile for a decent-sized demographic of the public. It must speak to that demographic’s spirit and heart and soul and mind in a way that nothing else can.

But what about market clout? Everyone’s entitled to their own discriminating taste, so what matters to a ten-year-old has the same artistic equivalency as a Picasso show at the museum or a Beethoven symphony concert or a Metallica gig. Ah, but tastes change. People grow up, age. Cultures shift. If the music still stands up, well, then pop indeed had some art in it. The eventual consequences of art determine whether the artist managed to beat life at its own game, creating something that speaks beyond the pop-bang-whiz, the instant fizz of the moment.

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