@funkentechno 100%, was deep into it in the 90s with my friends who all skated but I was too afraid that I wouldn’t be any good so I didn’t try (lol story of my life)
his History of Rock series that aired on PBS in 1995 was life-altering: I came for the beatles, dylan, stones etc and left with the velvet underground, syd barrett, modern lovers, television, funkadelic, lee perry, kraftwerk and much more lodged permanently into my young brain
Remembering writer, critic, musicologist, musician, producer and educator Robert Palmer, born OTD 1945 in Little Rock, Arkansas.
His 1982 book 'Deep Blues' is one of the greatest books on the blues, and the 1991 documentary of the same name indispensable.
@CarmanTse you see I do too and once curiosity got the best of me so I made one and it was absolutely terrible. somehow the flavors all crossed wires and nothing tasted like itself. do not recommend.
memoryholed era that people paper over w/ the later rise of mainstream alt/indie music. the time of velvet revolver, audioslave, stadium arcadium; vince neil, sebastian bach, navarro & bret michaels were reality tv stars. this is what got played most on mtv/vh1 not the stokes
What was wrong with rock music mid 2000s? Like earth aid era? Everything sounded so harsh and tiny. smashing pumpkins came back with some unlistenable song about war and NIN had the "bite the hand that feeds" Xbox theme and it all sucked so bad. Was it all trying to be The Matrix
also widely reflected in the dreadful fashion of the era just as much as the paris hilton/lindsay lohan type stuff. vile decade, the whole country felt like a fucking small town casino you were trapped in. the absolute worst time to be alive.
@CHTCTR@BigP4P4Smurf +1 and I would recommend doing Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth after. very different and a little controversial at the time but I love it
@fritolaysia I love these guys who do right wing grievance culture with the underground, it’s fun to have them glom onto one of your things for a change instead of like action movies and lite beer