[TypicalGirls] Riot Grrrl book
Douglas Wolk
dbcloud at panix.com
Fri Sep 14 18:07:30 EDT 2007
Yeah, I pretty much agree with you there--nobody's wishing harder
than I am for the Go Team stuff to be available on a shiny new CD, I
would totally buy a Fertile Virgin ringtone, etc. (Note: that looks
like sarcasm, but isn't.) But there are some legitimate arguments,
along the same lines, for not reissuing some things. A couple of
years ago, I asked Lois Maffeo for permission to post some MP3s from
the Courtney Love (-the-band) singles on my blog; she responded,
essentially, that since I'd asked, she had to say no: those records
were really meant for people who were part of a particular scene at a
particular time, and while she was happy to see them being propagated
on mix tapes etc., she didn't want to be officially responsible
herself for making them available again outside their intended
cultural context. Which seemed fair to me.
Like Tobi, I'd also rather see a new musical/cultural/political
movement than more documentation of the old one--!
On the Yoko Ono front: I have probably mentioned this here before,
but she was one of the best, most interesting interviewees I've ever
talked to, and pretty much every other journalist I know who's
interviewed her has had the same reaction. I'm not quite as crazy
about _Approximately Infinite Universe_ as Tobi and J Neo are ("Death
of Samantha" aside), but _Plastic Ono Band_ and _Fly_ are both
mindbendingly fantastic records. _Life with the Lions_ is pretty
riveting, too.
Douglas
Mike wrote:
>All good points. And I wasn't really thinking about the 50-copy
>photocopy zines, anyway; it's totally understandable that the authors
>would be uncomfortable seeing them anthologized or uploaded. I'm
>thinking more about the actual music that came out during that era -
>the cassettes, 7-inches and LPs. It seems to me that the songs and
>live shows were generally meant for larger audiences than the zines.
>It seems a shame to deprive today's youth of Viva Knieval, Heavens To
>Betsy's "Direction" single or the _A Wonderful Treat_ cassette, for
>instance.
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