I tells ya: being a mid-thirties, rather jaded individual, it gives me much delight to "turn on" people to the whole other world of music beyond top-40. What's cool to watch is when the person starts to learn some of the tools and pathways to the *good* shit, and then finds a gem of their own, on their own. That's kinda like this kid and the Heartless Bastards. I guess in this over-saturated last.fm/top-1000list/wikipedia.org culturesphere, that joy of discovery seems to have diminished a bit. I mean, YES it was cool when that 7" you took a chance on ended up being amazing (for me, the Quicksand Revelation EP), but A LOT of the time you got burnt (Sockeye 7" - hey, it got a good revue in MRR!). I sure hope that youngsters today have something equivalent.
I hope this whole exercise doesn't paint me as a culture snob (too much). It's just that goddamn, I did my years with the Chili Peppers, and I'd rather just leave that behind with exception of perhaps a meta-ironic karaoke of "Suck My Kiss".
weird war - not bad!
