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I miss John Peel. I like the sorta DJ that plays an eclectic array of weird/punky music, w/ little interest at attempting to appeal to a large-scale audience. Those Nirvana Peel Sessions are fantastic....
Basically, I could care less about going to a club where people are dancing and some cliche weirdo in a cocked cap + Addidas zip-up is up there scratchin' and trying to get people to move. I don't understand the appeal + don't identify w/ it at all. I could probably understand if I sat around really thinking about it...but it's pointless...as that's a world I have no interest in being a part of. No offense to anyone that digs this sort of thing...I'm not trying to insult/etc.
If it isn't something I can listen to in my free time at home, I have no interest in it. Sway don't dance.
I think maybe I'm still in love with the guitar. I look at it and see an instrument that STILL has a lot to say, even if it sometimes boils down to repeated (but still meaningful) messages. I guess I appreciate the sort of DJ that feels at least similar, and plays this sort of thing. I do see how turntables ARE an instrument to some people...I do. I just always found the concept of mixing the music of others into little pieces used to express one's self a bit boring.
Lotsa great Peel Session out there...Mogwai, the Fall, Nirvana...it's endless.
RIP to that guy.
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