Mock Chicken Soup for the Vegan Soul p.2
A quick post by Tony El Guapo here. I read over the first 25 pages and there's some promising stuff there! Some blue, some sensitive, some personal, mostly hilarious.
Oh, there's work to grow on. Lots of work to grow on.
BOOK OF THE DAY: I read the book "Our Band could be your life." It's an account of 80's underground music from SST and Dischord Records. Very very illuminating. If you remotely like Blag Flag, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Mike Watt, Minutemen, Husker Du, and that time frame, read this book. As much as I read fanzines, almost all the Minor Threat stuff was news to me. The Husker Du stuff was informative. Even the Blag Flag stuff put the situation and personalities in context, having read "Get in the Bus" by Rollins and hearing his perspective, and the perspective of events from American Hardcore movie. Even Ian of Minor Threat saying "We brought violence to D.C." makes little sense in the American Hardcore movie, but he goes into the context in this book. And strange as it sounds, it makes sense, particularly if you grew up with the same antagonism. These ain't those times. These were the "heroes" of that time frame. Others made out with lots more money. I mean, what was R.E.M. about? Makes no sense at all!
I'm thinking of doing a Husker Du cover album and calling it Husker Dude. Let's put it this way. I've owned "Zen Arcade" for almost 2 decades. And it took that book to explain what the heck the point of that double album was. Me? I'm more of a Warehouse type of guy meself. That was the first Husker album... no, wait. New Day Rising was the first tape I heard, then it was Warehouse. Loved it! I still have the New Day Rising tape. Never gave it back to the kid I borrowed it from. Punks.
That's about all. Reading and writing. Not a lot of quotes to pull from that book. I mean, those were very specific times. If anything, I'm over my nostalgia for things yesteryear. I took a lot from the Minutemen chapter, only because they spoke of "Econo" and their economics made sense.
Saludos, Tony EL Guapo
Oh, there's work to grow on. Lots of work to grow on.
BOOK OF THE DAY: I read the book "Our Band could be your life." It's an account of 80's underground music from SST and Dischord Records. Very very illuminating. If you remotely like Blag Flag, Henry Rollins, Minor Threat, Mike Watt, Minutemen, Husker Du, and that time frame, read this book. As much as I read fanzines, almost all the Minor Threat stuff was news to me. The Husker Du stuff was informative. Even the Blag Flag stuff put the situation and personalities in context, having read "Get in the Bus" by Rollins and hearing his perspective, and the perspective of events from American Hardcore movie. Even Ian of Minor Threat saying "We brought violence to D.C." makes little sense in the American Hardcore movie, but he goes into the context in this book. And strange as it sounds, it makes sense, particularly if you grew up with the same antagonism. These ain't those times. These were the "heroes" of that time frame. Others made out with lots more money. I mean, what was R.E.M. about? Makes no sense at all!
I'm thinking of doing a Husker Du cover album and calling it Husker Dude. Let's put it this way. I've owned "Zen Arcade" for almost 2 decades. And it took that book to explain what the heck the point of that double album was. Me? I'm more of a Warehouse type of guy meself. That was the first Husker album... no, wait. New Day Rising was the first tape I heard, then it was Warehouse. Loved it! I still have the New Day Rising tape. Never gave it back to the kid I borrowed it from. Punks.
That's about all. Reading and writing. Not a lot of quotes to pull from that book. I mean, those were very specific times. If anything, I'm over my nostalgia for things yesteryear. I took a lot from the Minutemen chapter, only because they spoke of "Econo" and their economics made sense.
Saludos, Tony EL Guapo
posted by Team Torres at 6/14/2007 11:00:00 PM
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