I was reading some blah about Tony Wilson yesterday and he noted that he was 'one of the people in the industry who had made history and not money', which struck me as probably true based on the Marxist principles of Factory Communications (full title yah) and considering the pre-Thatcherite beliefs most of the people running the label and the successful bands it spawned had(who you could argue did make 'history' but not money) I can fully believe this to be the case.

So it got me thinking - in an age where technology is everything, superceding and overshadowing the very music it needs to exist, is it possible to 'make history' musically, or is it more and more about making money - Snow Patrol are loaded probably and Slint are probably skint and for all their 'accolades' have they made 'history'?

So, is it not actually possible anymore to make a 'dent' in the ever unfurling musical tapestry that is 'rock' and 'roll' or whatever the Dickens this 'thing' is that's been making us happy or unhappy since the 1930s? (I argue that the pioneering electric blues chaps were the real beginning of rock and roll)