Grammy Museum in LA: Show on Blue Note Records

[skeith]

I was in LA last month and dropped in on the Grammy Museum to the exhibits on Blue Note and the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 60s and 70s - I really loved both shows and they had many cool artifacts - Blue Note fans would love that show in particular.

[Shawn]

Thanks for the recommendation, I have been meaning to go down there but I wanted to get an idea of the quality of the display beforehand. Will probably go soon, I'm only 2 1/2 miles west of the museum.

[CJ Shearn]

Oh wow, what kind of memorabilia was there?

[Chuck Nessa]

Way too late to have real meaning.

[Shawn]

Isn't it better than nothing, no matter how late?

[Chuck Nessa]

Not for Alfred or Frank.

I guess it is good for consumers/fans.

Can you imagine if something like this recognized their work at the time??

Never happens.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Not for Alfred or Frank.

I guess it is good for consumers/fans.

Can you imagine if something like this recognized their work at the time??

Never happens.

I agree with you Chuck but the reason it never happens may be because it can't. If there were a touring exhibition recognising YOUR work, now or at any time in the last 40 years, you'd be required to make personal appearances to support it, sign autographs, kiss young lady fans ( ), stay in expensive hotels, appear on TV. Anyone for whom such a thing might be organised would have loads of better stuff to do than that. (Well, not sure about kissing young ladies

There's a cost to everything and only the dead don't have to pay that one.

MG

[bertrand]

Isn't the purpose of museums to celebrate things historical?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Historical doesn't necessarily mean dead. Lots of Picasso paintings were in museums long before he died. There was a Motown Museum in Detroit long before Berry Gordy sold the firm.

MG

[bertrand]

I agree, but museums can also celebrate people and things created by people who have passed. A mix is good.

If I had been around when Alfred and Frank were around, I would have done all I could to champion them. But I wasn't; any homage to their work is welcome, even if overdue.

Some people seem to forget that a new crop of 'fans' pops up all the time. A 20-year old budding saxophonist who wants to find out about Blue Note is not allowed to have the option of seeing an exhibit because Al and Frank are dead? That's selfish.

Bertrand.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

No, I don't think that's what I was saying.

Living performers/business people have better things to do than dance attendance at exhibitions celebrating them, so there are no (or actually few) such things.

But it's not compulsory for museums to focus on dead people's work, which is what you seemed to me to be saying.

MG

[bertrand]

Actually, my last paragraph was a response to the 'why bother' sentiment expressed in post #4.

I think museums can serve both purposes, and certainly not exclusively focus on the work of those who are gone. But I don't understand the sentiment expressed in post #4. It's not too late for those who weren't around at the time.

Bertrand.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Oh, right, Chuck's fault

MG

[bertrand]

Well yeah.