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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Music is fun, but it's also hard work for a lot of people, in that if you don't get a web of them supporting it at its most obscure and uncompromising, be it by playing it on your radio show, writing about it on a fanzine/magazine/blog, helping out to open up chances for an artist to play live, you risk losing it due to the fact that people might end up just posting it on myspace/music forum to eternity, without any mean of feeling validated other than a few posters saying ''that's good'', ''that's bad'', ''that's just really shit'' etc, and with it never seeing the light of the day due to the double-blow of putting up with a 'passing interest' in it.
Unless, of course, you just take it in your hands to put out your own records etc , which is never as good fun as having someone doing that for you.
You're a fan of John Peel, who indeed used spend a lot of his energies trying to play part of the wider spectrum of what constituted 'the state of music' on his show in the time he was alive, not always matching his taste with that of his listeners. It can't have been just fun, it sure was passion. And not for immediately grabbing ink and paper to say something about it, more for trying to get the best of what was going on around by listening to it religiously.
One more proof it isn't just fun, even though I get what you mean with that, is the fact that we have threads that worry about the state of it which start on a sour, insecure note, even though I have a hard time believing the majority of people on it take the time to spend at least a few hours of their day trying to find out what's hiding underneath the surface inhabited by modest mouse, animal collective and all that rubbish.
Another thing pbradley seems to miss out on is the fact that the average age of the bands on DJ Rick's etc shows is very young, so much for being a nostalgic new wave documentary-viewer, I imagine.
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Yeah, absolutely. I fully admire the work of people like DJ Rick for getting out there and putting in a shitload of effort into finding and supporting new music. I mean, the underground seems to subsist on the aether of goodwill and passion. My personal experience of the underground isn't really important in this case, but suffice it to say that it infuriates me that pretty much everyone I know who invests all of their time and effort (and, most importantly, money) into music has been fucked over and left destitute. And a cynical cunt like me whinging on the internet doesn't do anything about that.
I do, however, line the coffers of musicians I feel merit my respect. This is a direct criticism of the 'underground supporters' whose support of the underground extends to a badly-written blog and several GBs of stolen music.
The only point I was making in pbradley's defence is that I object to the implication that
just because person a
listens to more music than, say, me, doesn't mean that I
ought to listen to more. As it happens, I'd struggle finding more time in the day for records, but my digging for records is always in a different direction, and for different reasons, than someone persistently seeking the 'new'. I'm not better, just different.