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Post by DayoRemix on Jan 17, 2024 17:28:36 GMT
How has there never been an album titled 'Faux gypsy French love songs'?
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Post by riggers on Jan 17, 2024 19:16:45 GMT
Bit late to this one, but to return to the original topic..
This was something I carried with me as a young man, almost an affliction. A compulsion that would make me and others acutely aware of the differences between us, and while I always tried to maintain an air of superiority, I also felt somehow apart. This passion and my wide knowledge of it were essentially useless. Occasionally you'd meet someone at a party or a night out and connect with them when discussing a particular band or whatever, but it was very rarely someone of the opposite sex...
I remember trying to 'make it in the music biz' and almost rehearsing our interviews in my head as much as concentrating on the fundamentals of being in a band.
I think it was Thurston Moore who said that because the UK had those all pervasive weekly music papers, most British bands were all about their 'manifesto' above anything else and he had a point.
I pored over interviews with the likes of Bobby Gillespie, Jason Pierce etc because they really broadcast their passions. If someone from Loop mentioned the Wimple Winch, you'd be off on a quest to find this stuff ..
I wanted to be like that, but I didn't have the platform for it. So I spent years trying to evangelise about my passions to anyone who would listen. Looking back, it was a waste of time and a bit embarrassing.
Just yesterday, a colleague asked me what music I liked and I just said something like 'I like a huge variety of stuff, all eras, genres etc, but my favourite group is the Beatles ', which was all that was needed.
Another guy I work with only seems to like bands from Manchester, so I end up chatting with him about The Smiths, New Order, Stone Roses etc, but that's it.
I guess I'm lucky that I also work with a good mate, who's a musician and shares a lot of my enthusiasms, so when we're (for example) on a long walk with one of the kids we support, we can talk about (to bring a few recent chats to mind) Link Wray, The Stranglers, Pavement, where and when we saw My Bloody Valentine, Pixies etc...so I guess I'm lucky to have that.
In most social or work situations, it just doesn't come up and I'm fine with that. In retrospect it was a burden to always be the evangelist.
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