From Greg Earle Sent Thu, Jan 15th 1998, 14:16
From Greg Earle Sent Thu, Jan 15th 1998, 14:16
Robert Merlak writes:
>> I'll be 40 years old in October. I have records in this room by every
>> single artist mentioned by Robert above.
>
> Of course, you have all those records. But the question is do you have
> all records from 1930-40 ? These records are produced and released
> in the time of your father ... get the point ?
Oh yes, I understand you completely. In my particular case I've never ever
acquired a taste for Swing & Jazz or Delta Blues, so this was never a problem
for me :-) (Also, my own father wasn't much for buying records. Save for
a few dusty old 78's, there wasn't anything from that era in the ol' Victrola)
> When I grow older, and become 50 year old bloke for example,
> I'll still love Boards of Canada, but I won't love David Sylvian
> (not that I don't like his music, I love some of his stuff, but I cannot
> go so much back in time and search for everything that Sylvian
> released, than I'll miss some of the releases that come out in 98,
> 99, 00 or ...)
That's very true. It was hard for my generation, it's way harder for yours.
I don't envy you one bit. One thing that helped me was that I entered college
right as Punk was getting rolling, so at the time there wasn't much Punk vinyl
product to be had, and I had time to learn about Those Who Came Before from
other people at school with deeper record colllections than I. By the end of
my first semester I had become a certified Bowie/Eno/Iggy/Roxy Music freak
:-)
> It's really hard to go back in time and search for all those goodies
> for us younger IDMers. I've recently had a birthday, I'm 21 now.
> How can I get all the records that you have, tell me, how?
Move to America and come to a house party? :-)
> Two big problems : Money & Time ---> you cannot hear everything
> You cannot even hear 0.00001% of great stuff that is released
> from the beginnnigs of the record business. I don't work, I'm still
> at college, I spend all (I mean ALL) my money on CDs or records
> and still cannot buy 1% of electronic music I'd like to own.
The same was true for me when I was your age, and (to a lesser extent) is
still true today. I can afford more recordings but there's 100 times the
amount of music out there to dip into. Believe me, I get Ben's weekly
Synaptic Records new acquisitions list and it depresses the fuck out of me
:-)
>> Music. It's not a father/son schism. It's a continuum.
>
> Of course ... I really admire Greg's opinion here.
I was just trying to suggest to you a slightly different way of looking at it.
Obviously it's based on my own perspective. To someone like me who's been
buying records for so long, other than my actual buying habits themselves
(i.e., tempered from years of overdoing it, combined with the usual pressures
one finds as one goes through adult life - you *will* sacrifice buying records
if you need that down payment on a house, for example), the process is still
fundamentally the same. My ears just plain don't like aging. (-:
Robert got a fair bit of stick a while back for wanting to live in the
present. I actually agree with him for the most part; he's right in wanting to
expend his limited resources towards what's kinda new/kinda now/kinda WOW! in
music. I just don't think he should shut himself off to hearing the good from
the past. It can be good from a historical perspective - this isn't 313, but
I think everyone should hear the "Derrick May: Innovator" 2CD compilation, for
example, just to know where this music came from that we all love. It sounds
like he's realizing this and taking advantage of a resource he has closeby.
Even if it means admitting to liking music his Dad liked (-:
Oh, one last thing: re-read Irene McC's response over again. 'Cuz she is
absolutely, positively 100% right about context in relation to prior music.
(And 'cuz she kicks serious ass. (-: )
Anyway, enough "Father Knows Best" out of me for one day.
- Greg