RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Chris Calloway wrote:

> it's not a contest between troika and cover-up. that
> is, you can like both.

Todd said: "In fact, I'm having a hard time coming up with a serious 
competitor."

I was merely suggesting one [obvious] possibility.

> accretions of otherwise-unrelated local musicians are
> one thing what make new local bands. cover-up has much
> the same effect as rock lotto as far as lasting
> legacies. it shakes things up. if it doesn't get
> people working together, it at least lets people know
> why.

You know, earlier this year I was thinking about Rock Lotto (OK, it was 
while I was watching Fluff Chick). Are there any other bands besides 
Fluff Chick who trace their lineage back to Rock Lotto?

Not that it would be a slight on Rock Lotto if there weren't; it truly 
*was* the best party/spectacle/rockshow Of All Time. Every time.

> peeps i talked to *all* would appreciate troika more
> if it would go back to being in one place at a time.
> having to choose which venue from the menu at any
> given time was too much of a sxsw or cmj fuckfest. it
> was kinda anti-scene-defining. not that we don't
> appreciate that.

Yeah, it was a drag: here's a year's worth of good local music distilled 
down to a week's worth of shows, including all the compromises & 
annoyances and scheduling impossibilities that characterize the damn 
thing the *rest* of the year. Still, there wasn't much else scheduled up 
against that last night at 305 South, and it really was one of those 
Hallmark Moments.

> all in all, if you had to look it up in a dictionary,
> like "what is this 7 brides thing y'all are talking
> about?," and find a good, concise, portable definition
> in one place, well then, the cover-up would be about
> as "scene-defining" as anything i've heard.
>
> todd wins.

Oh, we're arguing over whether the "scene" (wait, was I supposed to 
capitalize that? I can't ever remember) can/should be defined again? 
He's welcome to that one, then. Dictionary, though? More like Wikipedia.

See you & Todd at the Minutemen thing at 506?

Ross