sarramkrop

Music is fun, but it's also hard work for a lot of people, in that if you don't get a web of them supporting it at its most obscure and uncompromising, be it by playing it on your radio show, writing about it on a fanzine/magazine/blog, helping out to open up chances for an artist to play live, you risk losing it due to the fact that people might end up just posting it on myspace/music forum to eternity, without any mean of feeling validated other than a few posters saying ''that's good'', ''that's bad'', ''that's just really shit'' etc, and with it never seeing the light of the day due to the double-blow of putting up with a 'passing interest' in it.

Unless, of course, you just take it in your hands to put out your own records etc, which is never as good fun as having someone doing that for you.

You're a fan of John Peel, who indeed used spend a lot of his energies trying to play part of the wider spectrum of what constituted 'the state of music' on his show in the time he was alive, not always matching his taste with that of his listeners. It can't have been just fun, it sure was passion. And not for immediately grabbing ink and paper to say something about it, more for trying to get the best of what was going on around by listening to it religiously.

One more proof it isn't just fun, even though I get what you mean with that, is the fact that we have threads that worry about the state of it which start on a sour, insecure note, even though I have a hard time believing the majority of people on it take the time to spend at least a few hours of their day trying to find out what's hiding underneath the surface inhabited by modest mouse, animal collective and all that rubbish.


Another thing pbradley seems to miss out on is the fact that the average age of the bands on DJ Rick's etc shows is very young, so much for being a nostalgic new wave documentary-viewer, I imagine.