Strap yourselves in, sports fans, because this is going to get ugly. The past few days have given us a flurry of comments and actions to chew on in this fast growing chaos which is the new landscape of music.
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Frank Gutch Jr: Who Will Save the World? The Mighty Transistors! (and other fabled foibles of the time)
Posted in Opinion with tags Atavista bean fields, Calapooia Brewing Company, Dave Trenkel, DBAWIS, Delta Saints, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Frank Gutch Jr., in traffick.com, Indie Artists, JD Monroe, KASH, Ken Stringfellow, KGAL, Kim Grant, KOAC, KRKT, Lockets, music, radio, Records, Sweet Home, transistor radio, Xenat-Ra, Xprime on January 16, 2013 by segariniI should be writing about important things but this week I thought I would take a left turn and explain how we got to where we are, musically. Or at least one small leg of the journey.
It wasn’t all that long ago that I printed a piece about reality and each person’s perspective of it. I used Big Star as an example of how reality can be warped (read it here). I used The Wailers and The Sonics in a similar piece (read that here). Is there no end to my ego?