ABSTRACT
Drone and "classic" minimalism appear to be quite different from the point of view of style or technique, their aesthetic underpinnings reveal a kind of continuum extending from the most extreme or "pure" form of one to that of the other, along which an effective infinitude of points might be found. Interestingly, however, Young himself, besides providing John Cale with an apprenticeship in drone, laid a kind of common ground between certain strains of popular music and his drone interests, as evidenced by his activities as founder and leader of the Forever Bad Blues Band. Sonic Youth was a group of New York rock musicians who quite consciously, starting around 1980, absorbed the lessons afforded by John Cale's contribution to the Velvet Underground and put them to work, at least to a limited extent, in their own music. The next music to be sampled on the spectrum is drawn from the works by Charlemagne Palestine collectively titled Strumming Music.
