In Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous, Phillip Seymour Hoffman does a fine job of playing disenchanted rock music critic Lester Bangs, who views the purity of Rock n’ Roll as being corrupted by commercial interests. Of course, Rock n’ Roll has never been all that pure in the first place, but that’s another story.
At any rate, even as business-oriented a fellow as me never thought that I would see the day that the Beatles would be providing the background music for a Vegas casino stage show or the day that the Grateful Dead would be cozying up to lawyers and business-types while entering into management deals involving the group’s intellectual property.
Does this mean it’s only a matter of time before Bob Dylan plays Branson, Missouri?
Update: As my brother Joe points out, this may not be Branson for Dylan, but it’s close.