Thanks for this, Matt. Now this was a solid read, and now I may consider looking out for some of those titles; I will be very interested to analyze some of these points, no doubt. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Prove you are human, type c a t s in singular form below:.
Allen Ginsberg, DIY poet. The desire, then, is to free oneself of this madness. Minutemen, Punk rockers. One year later the Ramones released their self-titled album. Solomon is the radical, the outcast and the progressive. DIY ethic is really a denunciation of those who already know, precisely because they know.
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RSS Feed. Roland Barthes: Love as a Language. But now, you —yes you — were in a band! You had been reading about bands and seeing bands and listening to bands and fantasizing about bands for as long as you could remember, and now you actually were in one. I set about teaching myself the rudiments of punk rock bass guitar. I did this pretty much for a week straight. I hereby apologize to my roommate at the time Sorry, Kevin. It did the trick, and honestly, I still recommend this as a way of learning the instrument.
A few days later, Jack and I were walking down McDougall Street, on the way to another one of our standard hangouts, 99 Records. A small but massively amazing import and independent record store, 99 Records also boasted its own, very influential label. As we were approaching the store, a boyish, very tall and very blonde fellow was climbing up the steps out of I had some small familiarity with Thurston Moore, since I had seen him perform multiple times as a member of the Glenn Branca Ensemble, and I also knew of his relatively new and, at the time, vastly under the radar art-rock band, Sonic Youth.
Thurston and I quickly became fast friends. Thurston and his owl-ish girlfriend, Kim, lived in a shattered, smashed corner of the Lower East Side, what was then a no-go zone except for the heartiest and most intrepid pioneers. I remember that their flat was pale blue, long, and trapped between lightless tenement airshafts. They had terribly interesting friends who made odd films and strange, skeletal music.
Thurston never seemed to have any money, and since I was actively working as a journalist at this time I would occasionally hire him to transcribe my interview cassettes at the fairly generous rate of ten bucks a side, which seems steep, even now.
My editor at The Voice was the legendary Robert Christgau. He was very generous with his time, wisdom, and skill. I would often tell my friends how fond I was of him.
Live, their sound was often so feral that it was reduced to nothing more than a gorgeous, courageous, and ridiculous rhythm and noise. They were also universally pretty unpopular in those years; the contemporary rock critic cognoscenti despised their disorganization and anti-pop, and they usually played in front of tiny audiences. At the time, I was virtually the only mainstream music journalist writing anything positive about Sonic Youth.
I remember being startled when I first head it: it began with a woozy, clipped two-chord guitar sequence, the closest thing Sonic Youth had ever recorded to a traditional rock guitar riff. It seemed like an enormous leap forward for the band. I was so blown away by this musical development that, bizarrely, I missed what was staring me right in the face in the first verse of the song:.
Burn your idols. This does not necessarily mean they are bad people, nor does it mean you cannot like them - all it means is you should acknowledge their flaws and that they should be held accountable for them. This article is a stub. You can help SJWiki by expanding it.
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