Re: An unsettling moment.....

[joseph manfredi <joseph9@home.com>]

lee wallace wrote:
> 
> Had an interesting experience last night. I go to a
> friend's house to pick him up for band practice. I
> walk in to a scene with three or four dudes passing
> around a bong, listening to the just-released
> Radiohead album. I hang out for a minute, waiting, and
> these dudes are like IN AWE.




	Yeah, well.....that's what bong hits will do to ya! :)



> It sounds okay to me,
> kinda like Floydish ambient guitar synth waves. I
> liked "OK Computer" and "The Bends" so I am kinda
> interested in hearing it. Then my bud finally comes
> down, and he emphatically tells everyone "hey, Lee
> here just saw the Who the other night! Isn't that
> awesome?!?" Then one of the stoners says "did they do
> American Woman?" and then there is a round of
> Bevis-n-Butthead style laughter and someone says "he
> he, good one!"




	The OTHER guy SHOULD have THEN said "No, no, Lenny Kravitz did
"American Woman", as in they're familiar with the REndition earlier this
year, but NOT the real thing by the real artist :)




 Then there are some comments about how
> the Guess Who had played at some city festival years
> ago and how they were "fat useless bores". I sort of
> wondered if these guys knew the difference.




	They OBVIOUSLY did'nt!



>    It occured to me then that for alot of folks,
> especially younger dudes, The WHO are probably just
> another "classic rock" band, another band that "dad
> likes", another group that like Skynyrd or Boston or
> what have ya has been played to death on US radio for
> the past 30 years.



	To some of them who aren't familiar with them, they probably are.  To
these kind of musically uneducated people, ANYBODY over the age of 30 is
OLLLDDD.  No need to take offense.




>    After practice I went home and listened to most of
> Blues to the Bush and felt relieved.



	Good man!!!




							Joseph