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Originally Posted by foreverasskiss
i don't believe this at all. i don't think the White Stripes or The Strokes gave a fuck about Jon Spencer. maybe they heard of him, but those two bands have not a whole lot in common with Spencer; who bordered on parady most of the time and went along with the 90's.
loved the Blues Explosion way before Strokes and The Stripes showed up, but never thought that.
maybe it's the blues and the strip down instrumentation that does it? Jon Spencer reminds me more of Pavement and Beck more than those bands.
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Well at least in the Finnish music magazines those bands had put into same genre in the early 2000`s. And I really wonder, if Jack White hadnīt ever heard Jon Spencer before White Stripes. I hear a lot in common in White Stripes and Spencer, they both donīt have any bass and they added rhythm-element in their "garage"-rock. I think todayīs music peopleīs problem is that they think too strict about what belongs into some genre. Most of the 60īs psychedelic and 70īs punk bands donīt really sound the same, still they belong into same genre. And I think thatīs the one main problem in newdays music, itīs very rare that bands have something very own. Also itīs very common that somebody start something new (I mean little different that has made before) for example Nirvana, Hole and Mudhoney started to play in style that people started to call grunge. Then came a dozen much more mediocre bands after that.
I think Jon Spencer have had the same problem than many other great artist before him that he was ahead of his time. The most known example is the original blues musicians. The young british men started to play their music and become much more popular. Also Velvet and Stooges were ahead of their time. But all those artists become famous later, those young british men helped the old blues musicians to become famous for example making records with them, also many punk/new wave artist has said that they own almost everything to Velvet and Stooges. But you are right about that, I think also White Stripes and Strokes didnīt give fuck about Jon Spencer and I think itīs wrong!