Reply #18: For those who really love music, that's not important. [View All]

[Gregorian]

When I was a young child, I remember taking a trip to Los Angeles. My sister and I sat in the back seat with a radio, hoping with great optimism that LA would have some great stations to listen to. I don't remember, but I think we found something.

Today I have a friend who is a dj at the only independent radio station in LA. There is only one non-commercial station there, believe it or not.

I used to play trumpet in jazz bands. I would get dragged off to an occassional Greatful Dead concert, and just hated them. And still do. Count Basey. Now there's a band to see. I'll never forget that night. Not to mention James Brown. I can't remember that night! But it was awesome. Oh, anyways, I decided I wanted to hear good music. It took quite a long time before I discovered that it was being played on college radio stations. Not all of them. Just a very few. And I happened to live near two. I was hooked. Totally. So much so that I feared it wouldn't last. One year, on April 1st, my favorite station played classical music all day. I was destroyed. The next day it donned on me what had happened. I was dying to leave the stinking San Francisco bay area. Buy the late 80's that place just had too many cars. When I went to buy my first piece of land, it had to have radio reception. I traveled with my radio, and when I finally went to buy a place, I turned it on, and it got it. And I bought that place. Then came the internet. And the music world opened up to me. It has been just great.

Oh, I lost track. My point was that I see so many people listening to shit. Shit music on shit stations with shit commercials in between. And repetition. Most people don't know that what they're doing, or listening to is total crap. It's a big beef I have with especially Americans. We eat shit. Listen to it. Watch it. And drop it on the rest of the world. I remember seeing a survey for radio listeners. The best station out of the entire list was a few listeners. The total commercial crap was just this huge group. And why, I wondered? Why would people just buy up the garbage? I can't turn that crap on for two seconds. It's poisonous.

And that's why I could care less about the Hall of Fame.

Iggy rules. And there are so many bands that are awesome that are under the radar. Spacemen Three.

Argh, sorry about all the words. I just find great music to be one of the rare pleasures in life.