OFF: Re: Hi again

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

Stephen Swann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:38:26PM +0100, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>>Man, I gave up on radio when I was a teen; actually, from basically the
>>first moment that I took an interest in contemporary "pop/rock/whatever"
>>I realized that nobody was playing anything I liked on the radio.  Some
>
> See, the NY/NJ metro area is the first place I've ever lived
> where radio really, truly just sucks ass.

Yeah, that's where I grew up, and yeah, it sucked giant flaming
pox-ridden asses :)

(Well, when I was in high school, there was a classic rock station that
played a "psychedelic six-pack" special every so often, and though in
reality it wasn't that adventurous, it sounded pretty far out to my
then-virgin ears.  That was about it, though!)


> Even in North
> Carolina, where commercial radio is still stuck on Tom Petty
> and the Eagles,

There are far _worse_ things ;)


> I haven't been as engaged in chat groups and mailing lists
> as I used to (well, I am, but not music related ones
> recently).

Likewise.  Though I seem to hear about enough interesting new things
that I still can't anything like afford them all (though this is due
more to budget reduction than music explosion ;)


> For a while I
> thought the "return to roots rock" movement of the Strokes
> and Jet would do it, but they haven't ignited a revolution
> yet.  And I'm also not convinced that going backwards is the
> right answer to the problem.

Yeah, as far as the Strokes, it's like: I've heard this before.  I'm all
for rocking out like they used to rock out, but maybe not _quite_ so
clonified ....


> I'm sure that somebody
> somewhere is recording something that I would like.  The
> problem is how to get to hear it, since Napster and its
> clones got litigated out of existence, and (the once
> awesome) MTv2 went pop-commercial...?

They need to let you tape their gigs, get a fan buzz going (by actually
being good), and the you score the FLAC files via bittorrent :)  After a
while, you've heard such amazing stuff that you say "Goddam! I'm gonna
buy their album!" :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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