The rest of this series can be found:
Ok. Now we’re all caught up, right?
RIGHT?!?
Start at the bottom and work your way up.
Ummm…
Oh, honorable mention:
As I commented on my friend, our Preezie and Happenin' Dude,
's last post on that thread:Thanks, David! Great article. I agree on the redneck thing wholeheartedly. Cheers from Western Wishes, and safe travels.
There’s also a couple personal notes on this from both sides of the spectrum for me. I was raised in Navy towns. My last half of elementary school, and all of Jr. High, I had a diverse group of people in my classes. Actually, my favorite Spanish teacher was from Basque Country (basically the regions that straddles the France/Spain border), and my favorite English teacher was Chinese. Lots of my class was Black and Filipino. Our next door neighbor (the guy that knew Bobby McFerrin) was black. Dave LOL. He took me to school for a while. I got exposed to culture and music, especially in ninth grade, that I had never seen/heard before.
Oh, I have some really awesome “ethnic” recipes. Exploring cultural food is a passion.
Ok, back to music, and some bullshit.
That was the calm. Let us explore the storm.
I’ve had some weird stuff happen to me over the years that I still don’t understand. Some black kid punched me in a bowling alley arcade for not moving fast enough. I was actually stunned, immobile on my feet. I just wanted to play pinball. Never saw him again.
I had a ginger (named Benjamin, no idea how I remember that) trying my patience multiple times. I got fed up with his shit one time when he came up behind me and put me in a headlock. Grabbed his head and flipped him over my shoulder. We were friends for a while after that.
I got shunned by a lot of my school peeps in Jr. High, and then again in High School, which took place in Boise, ID. I was a nerd among nerds. There was a polar shift in Boise. Not just the culture. And, yes… I have actually walked to school and back in the snow. Shut up.
I’ve lived all around this country. Something like eleven different addresses in California over the last almost 48 years, Idaho, Florida, Illinois/Wisconsin, Virginia (two different parts), Washington D.C., North Carolina, (see above re: California about ever state or so). I’ve seen some crazy stuff. There are cultural shifts every hundred miles or so. I seent it happen.
Sorry.
Anyway. I like the podcast you did, David. I do have an appreciation for Tupac. Especially after your responses. I’ll get my studio together soon.
I think you’re right. I think that a lot of our musical tastes are almost dictated to us by age group, or current life experience. Nature/nurture! Living together! Mass hysteria!
Yes, I crossed the streams.
I think I understand now more, because of your perspective. The things that we listen to happen because of exposure to them. I love Guns n’ Roses, Metallica, Pink Floyd, NIN, RAtM, Nirvana, and others of this era because of the time that I was exposed to them. This was what I’ve dubbed “Angry Young Man Music”. I also started hanging out with people with less parental supervision than I had living with my grandparents (read: The Return of Being Gen X).
I never got exposed to rap. Real rap, until later. Late 80’s, early 90’s was pop rap/R&B. Probably why I’m more Will Smith than Tupac.
I have a few more posts to make on this thread, not including responses.
Favorite Black Musicians of All-Time
Favorite Millennial Musicians (this might be two entries for Black History Month)
Electronic music (Daft Punk, Massive Attack, Moby, Chemical Brothers)
Music scores. This needs a dedicated entry.
Music from movies. There’s a lot to unpack here.
Also, David? You don’t know being old. You talk about burning CD’s, but you don’t know the anxiety of trying to record a mix tape off the radio, desperate for the DJ to shut the fuck up.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Good night from Western Wishes.
Kilgore