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  • From: Duncan Murrell <dvmurrell AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: On Durham and identity
  • Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:05:49 -0400

Agreed.

d

but I _did_ think you'd pick up on the population density differences -- Chapel Hill and Carrboro are smaller but more dense than Durham. Carrboro is the most dense, and has been for at least the last seven years. At the same time, Carrboro has enjoyed a renaissance. It's not a direct relationship, decisions of the town have made a difference, but some of those decisions were made easier because Carrboro is dense and still centered on its downtown. Whether this means f***-all to musicians, I don't know. But it sounded nice. Wow, what a nice day out!

On Apr 5, 2007, at 11:50 AM, grady wrote:

See, that's why I've never been in a band . . . too busy doing this!

Seriously, though, it takes both. Put it this way: introverts *and*
extroverts. For every Shayne O'Neill, Durham still has a Dan Melchior:
http://www.myspace.com/dasmenace

Talk about a crank at the bottom of a well . . .

Duncan Murrell wrote:
it's occasionally occurred to me that it takes an
awful lot of energy and brainspace that might otherwise be spent
writing and practicing, and that viable artistic scenes seem to more
often arise around obsessives and cranks who make great art, who
tend to be jealous of their time, and who would have no problem
discovering influences and inspiration if they found themselves
living at the bottom of a well. I suppose I'm proposing a chicken or
egg problem with no answer; I just happen to follow the cranks and
hermits more closely than the ebb and flow of the scene.

d
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