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  • From: Bob Wall <bob.wall AT earthlink.net>
  • To: ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: southern college music circuit
  • Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:07:44 GMT

oh blow it out yr ass!


G.T. Tyson wrote:
>
>
> This whole business of categorizing music fans into THIS area or
> THAT area seems a bit pointless to me. Once you have everyone assigned
> to their group, based on the music they prefer or the car they drive or
> whatever, then what?
>
> The instinctive segregation of people into socioeconomical and
> cultural groups is the root of many social problems today, and music is
> the second silliest reason for it, religion and/or politics being tied
> for first.
>
> "garden-variety indie-rockers"
> "indie-rock poseurs"
> "jamrock-Hootie-and-white-jeep circuit"
> "alt.indie-twang-noise-ugly-glasses circuit"
>
> Oh please. Listen to whatever you like, attend whatever concerts you
> like, and don't get so hung up on what other people think.
>
> GTT
>
>
>
> grady wrote:
>
>> Exactly how much time have you spent among this tribe, oh great
>> Cultural Anthropologist, in order to be able to draw this vivid & one
>> must assume utterly accurate thumbnail sketch?
>>
>> And where exactly do they live, because I haven't met anybody like this.
>>
>> And are you suggesting they are somehow categorically distinct from
>> your garden-variety indie-rockers? Are you in fact suggesting that
>> they're, gasp, indie-rock poseurs? Is such a thing even possible,
>> inasmuch as "indie-rocker" is about as arbitrary & constructed a pose
>> as one could ever hope to invent already?
>>
>> And how do they feel about Dave Matthews?
>>
>> Ross
>>
>> Steven Keith wrote:
>>
>>> Which of the two circuits does the;
>>>
>>> ...so impeccably disheveled, I'm not coy, why do all you imbeciles look
>>> like me, been listenin' to Iggy Pop since the Nike commercial, it's
>>> Deborah Harry not Blondie, waiting an awfully long time for the hair to
>>> grow down more uniformly around my jaw, Interpol totally sucks, check
>>> out my new-old Marquee Moon thrift score...
>>>
>>> belong to?
>>> Probably the second one, right? I might argue that they need their own
>>> little group, maybe because they're multiplying like Kudzu.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
>>> [mailto:ch-scene-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of bendy
>>> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:33 AM
>>> To: RTP-area local music and culture
>>> Subject: Re: southern college music circuit
>>>
>>> I think you could argue that there are two southern college music
>>> circuits; the jamrock-Hootie-and-white-jeep circuit and the
>>> alt.indie- twang-noise-ugly-glasses circuit. The Cradle serves both
>>> circuits; most other spots serve one more than the other.
>>>
>>> You can make a living playing on the first circuit, which is
>>> interesting. You can get a following overseas playing the other,
>>> which is also interesting. R.E.M. may be the source of both scenes.
>>> The emergence of DMB and Superchunk might have been where they
>>> diverged forever, but I wasn't around here then to confirm.
>>>
>>> Bendy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Matt Cunningham wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> i, for one, would nix charlottesville, just because that is the
>>>> spawning
>>>> ground of dave matthews band (whom i hate), but admittedly,
>>>
>>>
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>>
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