RTP-area local music and culture

[DJ Golf <djgolf AT mindspring.com>]

X was always a lot more musically/lyrically sophisticated than most of
the late 70s/early 80s West Coast punk.

BTW...I downloaded a High On Fire album off eMusic the other day,
based on the user recommendations - one of which IIRC was from
Durham's own Bendy. (eMusic poined me to HIgh On Fire based on my
interest in the freak-folk group Fire On Fire.  I guess they assumed I
liked groups with the word Fire in the name.)

BTW BTW...check out Fire On Fire if you like Akron/Family and all
that.  FOF is the latest band on M. Gira's Young God label and the
whole first pressing of their 5-song ep is sold out.  Hence the
download.


On May 30, 10:05=A0am, bendonne... AT gmail.com (Ben Donnelly) wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 9:03 AM, DJ Golf <djg... AT mindspring.com> wrote:
> > The teenagers you describe were no doubt trying to deal with
> > their intense embarrassment at (a) being at a punk rock show with
> > their dad who (b) was totally rocking out. =A0(I'm grinning like Billy
> > Zoom while writing this.)
>
> I didn't like X when they got their first round of hype in the early
> 80s. (well, I liked the Wild Thing single, that sounded pretty crazy
> to me...). They seemed too adult to me, too *married*. Which is funny
> 'cause the Angry Samoans were a good example of what I thought X
> lacked, yet Metal Mike was older than all of them except Zoom. X
> didn't make sense to me until I'd been out of the house for a few
> years.
>
> - Bendy
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