Have you read Our Band Could be Your Life? Amazing how scenes were there before the internet and still are there. But not yet effectively herded. We need better cultural shepherds
Read it? It's one of my all-time favourite books Keith! A very prized hardback copy lives on my bookshelf in pride of place. Essential reading! (And the chapter on the Butthole Surfers is still one of the funniest collections of rock tales out there, LOL)
The generation born after 2000 only know the screen. They do not know human touch as much of the older generations. We are now in a time folks are defacto anti human. As I watch my God Daughter who is 15 be all into the 90's I shake my head. They watch this from You Tube but do not know of the spontaneous fun that was taking place. People were not trying to go viral. people didn't film everything. Folks were not chasing data points. A scene that is honest can't be manufactured! Everything we are devouring now is synthetic and manufactured that folks do not know how to just have fun. Fun not entertainment was the method. This has been lost because everyone is chasing data points instead of cool points.
Thank you for an interesting read. I do feel completley isolated at times, and whenever I think about local communities, I feel the internet's shadow is still there. I mean, if 80% of the artists are still trying to "make it" on Instagram, it's hard for them to imagine a smaller space. The same goes for the local venues, I guess. But I'd love to be able to create such a community in my hometown.
Do you think Subcultures and scenes borne out of geographical pockets can exist when the world’s music is at your fingertips?
I struggle to see how it can in the same way, when it was the very isolation and scarcity of music pre streaming that led to scenes growing.
The only example that goes against this is the trap/metal/alt pop scene that’s really grown out of the Misfits 2.0 playlist on Spotify. That’s been magical to watch
I do, mainly because I think the IRL experience of music that was often the birthplace (or focal point) of scenes contains more than just the music itself.
Put another way: would the Shoom-led Summer of Love in '88 have happened if people could just stream some acid house on their computer? I'd say not, because that is missing the fact that everyone was experiencing E for the first time and generally coming together under a shared mind state.
So on the whole, I'd like to think people would find more value in those local scenes because they are there, in front of them, and so infinitely more relatable and valuable.
(That Shoom example is an extreme one, granted, given that entire movement was as much about the transformative nature of E as a recreational drug etc etc, but hopefully you get my point!)
Have you read Our Band Could be Your Life? Amazing how scenes were there before the internet and still are there. But not yet effectively herded. We need better cultural shepherds
Read it? It's one of my all-time favourite books Keith! A very prized hardback copy lives on my bookshelf in pride of place. Essential reading! (And the chapter on the Butthole Surfers is still one of the funniest collections of rock tales out there, LOL)
The generation born after 2000 only know the screen. They do not know human touch as much of the older generations. We are now in a time folks are defacto anti human. As I watch my God Daughter who is 15 be all into the 90's I shake my head. They watch this from You Tube but do not know of the spontaneous fun that was taking place. People were not trying to go viral. people didn't film everything. Folks were not chasing data points. A scene that is honest can't be manufactured! Everything we are devouring now is synthetic and manufactured that folks do not know how to just have fun. Fun not entertainment was the method. This has been lost because everyone is chasing data points instead of cool points.
Thank you for an interesting read. I do feel completley isolated at times, and whenever I think about local communities, I feel the internet's shadow is still there. I mean, if 80% of the artists are still trying to "make it" on Instagram, it's hard for them to imagine a smaller space. The same goes for the local venues, I guess. But I'd love to be able to create such a community in my hometown.
Do you think Subcultures and scenes borne out of geographical pockets can exist when the world’s music is at your fingertips?
I struggle to see how it can in the same way, when it was the very isolation and scarcity of music pre streaming that led to scenes growing.
The only example that goes against this is the trap/metal/alt pop scene that’s really grown out of the Misfits 2.0 playlist on Spotify. That’s been magical to watch
I do, mainly because I think the IRL experience of music that was often the birthplace (or focal point) of scenes contains more than just the music itself.
Put another way: would the Shoom-led Summer of Love in '88 have happened if people could just stream some acid house on their computer? I'd say not, because that is missing the fact that everyone was experiencing E for the first time and generally coming together under a shared mind state.
So on the whole, I'd like to think people would find more value in those local scenes because they are there, in front of them, and so infinitely more relatable and valuable.
(That Shoom example is an extreme one, granted, given that entire movement was as much about the transformative nature of E as a recreational drug etc etc, but hopefully you get my point!)