RTP-area local music and culture

[Ben Davis <ben_dontspamme_davis AT unc.edu>]

Ya
The Lighting Bolt is working for peeps all over world...

check their Euro tour Picts out to get that good old punk rock feeling 
back  (check the crowd size in Paris)

http://laserbeast.com/photos/index.html

anyone wanna buy a bootleg of a late 90's set of them at the Lizard and 
Snake? - pretty great shit.
Ben





Nathaniel Florin wrote:
> --- Greg <blumenth AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Yeah, heaven forbid that a musician be allowed to
>>THINK. They might be tempted to do something 
>>ORIGINAL.
> 
> 
> Wow, you really really missed Richard's point. What I
> think you're referring to is this:
> 
> "There are way, way too many ideas  on display. Way
> too much  (visual/musical/verbal/historical) talk, not
> enough ROCK."
> 
> Richard didn't say ideas were bad, he said that there
> are *too many* ideas. To quote Michelangelo, "Beauty
> is the purgation of superfluities." The rock dies when
> it becomes a PhD thesis. Also, Richard's coming off of
> Woody's line about Tortoise and post becoming
> basically an amalgam of any number of 70s bands. From
> my view deep on the sidelines this is generally the
> problem with music after [insert your date here], that
> there's so much rehashing -- "recontextualizing" if
> you're feeling charitable, "slavish imitation" if
> you're not. And maybe there's some originality there,
> but you're really dithering on the margins. Art gets
> precious when its main influence is itself.
> 
> Richard's other line about "idea-free" music was about
> raw experimentation, which of course can't be truly
> idea-free in that it is itself one big idea, and which
> when applied dogmatically can be as original as
> anything (see, say, most every big leap in the history
> of jazz up to ~1970). Maybe Lightning Bolt came into
> existence without any thoughts beyond Richard's "What
> can these drums do? What can this bass do? What can I
> do with them?" -- but the times I saw them were as
> original as anyone else I'm likely to see, and they
> had the sort of Rock Power you can feel in your small
> intestine.
> 
> Nate
> 
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