Whats the contemporary legacy of glam rock artists like Marc Bolan?
I’m not sure if glam rock dated very well. The earlier T-Rex singles, sure, like “Telegram Sam” still sounds great now and some other ones still sound great now – they’ve been licensing a lot of his stuff for American television which is kind of a drag – but I’m not sure if it really holds water now, in terms of currency, if you know what I mean. I think it’s dated in terms of what’s happening now – but that doesn’t make it less good, it’s just so stylised that it’s in its own territory. All of the glam rock bands like Angel, Mud, all those bands, it became so stylised and formalised that it’s outside of relevancy is that way I’m looking at it. It is its own relevance. It doesn’t need mainstream culture to grant it any legitimacy. The question of a legacy today is a difficult one to answer. I like glam rock but the reason I picked glam rock as something to trumpet in the Dirtbombs is ‘cause at the time it was not fashionable in the slightest. Glam rock was a type of music that I liked
