RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

I'm not really paying a whole lot of attention to this
thread, but the words Polvo, rhythm, and boring IMO
should never be used in the same sentence.

This coming from a drummer whose band has written
maybe three non 4/4 songs in it's entire catalog.  And
they were all 6/8.  Grain of salt.

--- Woody <woody AT deadceo.com> wrote:

> I forgot about Deerhoof...
> 
> but, I didn't necessarily want to qualify one thing
> as good or another
> as bad since at this point it's all a flat
> landscape.  I agree that
> concepts of "newness" are problematic but I think it
> is fair to talk
> about people dealing with formalist aspects of the
> construction of the
> rock song versus recontextualization of rock's past
> moments.  For
> visual folks, let's go with Jackson Pollock versus
> Ed Ruscha, maybe.
> 
> While Polvo is fairly boring as far as rhythm, they
> were definitely
> interested in how melodic/harmonic content is
> constructed in ways that
> I feel weren't about referencing no wave and Sonic
> Youth.  I'm just
> saying conceptually there is a large difference
> between !!! and the
> Flying Luttenbachers (that even sounds silly to me).
>  I mean !!! is
> meant to be heard as 1981 NYC in 2004 while I'd
> argue something dealing
> more with form like US Maple is not supposed to be
> 1971 Beefheart now.
> 
> My argument isn't really about newness but about
> representation.
> Tortoise's Millions Now Living or TNT records might
> not be conceptually
> that far off from DJ Shadow's Endtroducing except
> they happened to play
> their samples of Morricone, Neu, Mahavishnu
> Orchestra, Reich, etc...
> While I hear stuff like Dog Faced Hermans in
> Cantwell, Gomez, and
> Jordan, they're not about that finger pointing to
> Dog Faced Hermans
> Is this making sense?  Am I off base here?  rock on.
> 
> 
> -Woody
> 
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