[kj] OT: Bill Hicks

[iPat]

not what i said,
i never referred to year zero, although i don't really know what you
mean exactly by that.

My point is that while we can sometimes take ourselves out to
different genres where one or two finds may be the exception, you will
generally be disposed to what you initially were turned on by. I may
have a few 'metal' tracks in my collection but in general im more
likely to default to where my journey really started, which is
naturally influenced by the peer group at the time.

For me, where i was in the UK at that time, it was the early 70's
skinhead music which set me off due to my peers influence. I've never
worn a rocker style leather jacket synonymous with rock music. The
status quo rocker scene was the antithesis of my 'culture' and the
music was abhorrent. That's not to say i don't have the odd early
AC/DC or Pink Floyd track and you know my feelings on Rush. Whether
any so called celeb is into a band has no effect on me but can
titillate others to no end. That's people for you.

I had a branch of industrial music that went off with mainly psychick
tv but a lot of krautrock' industrial stuff didn't interest me as
Orbital or Spiral tribe held little interest for Metallica fans. In
fact my PTV collection is quite large with all the literature that i
had and i think i will give it a suitable collector. Flat mates at the
time fcking hated it, unable to understand my hysterics when 'Jesus
Christ Walks on Water' was blasted out the window on number 10 volume
control to the neighborhood.

The crux of the matter though, is that the more i experience a wider
scope of music, i find myself defaulting to the original inspirations.
Whether you find the same is irrelevant in that you are you and of
course your experiences will be unique to your disposition. I'll wager
there is a disposition though. A recent remark on someone on this list
in private correspondence has also shown him to deferring to his
Groundhogs, Hawkwind, Todd Rundgren, Peter Green Fleetwood Mac. All of
which i find completely abhorrent unless i want to pretend to be a
music snob and pretend there's some intellectual relevance to it.
there's not, i simply dont get off on it.

It's like gigs, it simply amazes me that i can go to gigs and there's
never a fight anymore......where are the balls ; )

So whilst you may not agree with it, it is because i am not you as you
are not me. I'm right though and i blame it on mother..........   : 0

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Alexander Smith <vassifer at earthlink.net> wrote:

>

> I never fully subscribed to all that 'Year Zero' stuff. I love lots of

> metal. I adore Punk Rock. I like an unwieldy dollop of so-called 'classic

> rock.' I like bits of reggae. I like a lot of dance music. There's more than

> enough crap that I *don't* like, but at the end of the day, music is music.

> I'm too old to define myself by any single genre anymore.

>

> Henry Rollins of Black Flag, by the way (since they were invoked earlier) is

> a huge fan of Ted Nugent, Van Halen and Aerosmith.

>

> Alex in NYC