Q046: are you interested in any kinds of modern music aside from what you and other AMT members are involved in?
A046: I don't know about the other
members, but it's no mistake to say that all of us love rock music as it
was up until the mid-seventies. And also that we have little interest in
rock after that period. There are some forms of contemporary music that
I have a continuing interest in, but I am certain there is nothing out there
that will overturn my value system.
Some people who experienced the sixties in real time have told me that sixties
music was for listening to in the sixties, and that there is music made
now that needs to be listened in the present. But when I asked them to play
me something from the present that needs to be listened to now, all they
could come up with was boring retreads of old themes. And when I asked them
to decide objectively whether they preferred that music or early Soft Machine,
they all answered that they preferred Soft Machine. In that case, there
is no music that they need to be listening to now!