Comments on: Rock & Roll Bands

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:55:42 +0000

That’s pretty much exactly where I was going with it, Michael. I kinda struck on this before with my photo collection back before i ever started writing the Carnival Culture series:

http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2007...ds-posses-roadies-groupies-deadheads/

By: alistair

alistair — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:50:18 +0000

hmmm. define talent…….

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:43:02 +0000

This sounds like it could be expanded into a Carnival Culture like thing - then you could do fans, groupies, managers, roadies - explain how they all fit into this metaphor… the thing about a rock band, in my opinion, is that it’s basically the same unit, whether it’s three fifteen-year-olds in a basement playing for their own amusement, or five forty-year-old guys playing for a million people at Madison Square Garden… it’s the same, amazing thing - “talent” is beside the point…

By: Big Elk

Big Elk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:00:21 +0000

have no interest in coforming to society and beguile themselves with their own mislabeled talentâ€¦

I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing!

By: Bret

Bret — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:28:44 +0000

Or those who have no interest in coforming to society and beguile themselves with their own mislabeled talent… more often than not it’s that… true talent in the music world is so rare it may as well be traded on the commodities exchange. But - - optimism is good…