What is ambition anyways? When Bruce was some scrap kid in a ski cap, touring the East, jumping the gate at Graceland, was that ambition? They called him a punk then. That was before punk- in terms of music-was set in stone. His music seemed plain, a return to revving it up when the main scene was adding more and more filigree. The longhair rock gods would have said he wasn’t ambitious enough. How about Fugazi? In refusing to play along with music business conventions, was that ambitious or just pragmatic? Did they cheat by drawing their boundaries too close...

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