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I'm always pleased when you make this reference.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:13pmI've always been more of a Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters aficionado, which has, I admit, limited my horizons.
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I really do dig that movie.Kory wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:17pmI'm always pleased when you make this reference.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:13pmI've always been more of a Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters aficionado, which has, I admit, limited my horizons.
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It's both wholesome and enlightening. It's too bad Steve Zahn isn't as charming in his other works.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:24pmI really do dig that movie.Kory wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:17pmI'm always pleased when you make this reference.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:13pmI've always been more of a Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters aficionado, which has, I admit, limited my horizons.
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The only other thing that I can think of that he was in that I liked was SubUrbia. His role is comedic, but it's a pretty dark flick.Kory wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:29pmIt's both wholesome and enlightening. It's too bad Steve Zahn isn't as charming in his other works.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:24pmI really do dig that movie.Kory wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:17pmI'm always pleased when you make this reference.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:13pmI've always been more of a Cap'n Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters aficionado, which has, I admit, limited my horizons.
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I don't think I ever saw that. I'll check it out.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:40pmThe only other thing that I can think of that he was in that I liked was SubUrbia. His role is comedic, but it's a pretty dark flick.Kory wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:29pmIt's both wholesome and enlightening. It's too bad Steve Zahn isn't as charming in his other works.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:24pmI really do dig that movie.Kory wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:17pmI'm always pleased when you make this reference.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 2:13pm
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Found out one of my local libraries has several of these Soul Jazz comps. I checked out this one and the Akron one. Good stuff.
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I wonder what it would look like to write a history of punk/post-punk without all the official major bands. Do the big names actually represent, writ large, what was happening, or were they just the most marketable and didn't really represent what was going on in dozens, even hundreds of little scenes all over the world. Put another way, is the story of punk actually all these groups who took their shot and then stopped, and then the members went off to have anonymous weird or ordinary lives?
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Surely without the 'official major bands' it would have been a very small underground scene that would disappear pretty quickly.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 6:53pmI wonder what it would look like to write a history of punk/post-punk without all the official major bands. Do the big names actually represent, writ large, what was happening, or were they just the most marketable and didn't really represent what was going on in dozens, even hundreds of little scenes all over the world. Put another way, is the story of punk actually all these groups who took their shot and then stopped, and then the members went off to have anonymous weird or ordinary lives?
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Oh sure. I'm talking about a kind of historian's game playing. The big bands undoubtedly inspired (even if in a kind of repellant way—e.g., the No Wave scene, which was a rejection of punk) all these smaller bands. But what I'm getting at is that when we focus on the bands that made it, that gained greater and long-lasting attention, we're missing a key element of the story, which is all those bands who didn't make it, who broke up after releasing a 7" that was heard by a few hundred people. If punk is supposed to be a celebration and encouragement of the amateur and non-conformist, aren't these people the real story? Who makes history, the politicians or the average chumps? It's the same question of where we should train our gaze. The answer is both, of course, but too often the inclination is to go with "the leaders." But that marginalizes another part of the story, ignoring variety and idiosyncrasy that counters the conventional tale.101Walterton wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 7:32pmSurely without the 'official major bands' it would have been a very small underground scene that would disappear pretty quickly.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 6:53pmI wonder what it would look like to write a history of punk/post-punk without all the official major bands. Do the big names actually represent, writ large, what was happening, or were they just the most marketable and didn't really represent what was going on in dozens, even hundreds of little scenes all over the world. Put another way, is the story of punk actually all these groups who took their shot and then stopped, and then the members went off to have anonymous weird or ordinary lives?
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Ok I’m with you. Although to be fair a lot of those bands that released one 7” or didn’t even record were actually awful hence why they didn’t go anywhere.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 7:42pmOh sure. I'm talking about a kind of historian's game playing. The big bands undoubtedly inspired (even if in a kind of repellant way—e.g., the No Wave scene, which was a rejection of punk) all these smaller bands. But what I'm getting at is that when we focus on the bands that made it, that gained greater and long-lasting attention, we're missing a key element of the story, which is all those bands who didn't make it, who broke up after releasing a 7" that was heard by a few hundred people. If punk is supposed to be a celebration and encouragement of the amateur and non-conformist, aren't these people the real story? Who makes history, the politicians or the average chumps? It's the same question of where we should train our gaze. The answer is both, of course, but too often the inclination is to go with "the leaders." But that marginalizes another part of the story, ignoring variety and idiosyncrasy that counters the conventional tale.101Walterton wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 7:32pmSurely without the 'official major bands' it would have been a very small underground scene that would disappear pretty quickly.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 Mar 2018, 6:53pmI wonder what it would look like to write a history of punk/post-punk without all the official major bands. Do the big names actually represent, writ large, what was happening, or were they just the most marketable and didn't really represent what was going on in dozens, even hundreds of little scenes all over the world. Put another way, is the story of punk actually all these groups who took their shot and then stopped, and then the members went off to have anonymous weird or ordinary lives?
There were some great bands and singles that didn’t get the same press but overall I’d say it was more the other way round and that some awful bands only existed because of the major bands.
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