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i wish i had bought your organ when it was on Ebay

Posted by Suit & Tie Guy on 3/2/2007, 2:28 am, in reply to "Bring Back Bohemian Peoria"
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it was a nice early 60s B3/C3/A100/godknowswhat put in an X-66 cabinet. as Hammonds go it was nearly as freaky as you were.
you owned it back when you were a preacher. nice to see you picked up the preaching again, from beyond the grave.
i can vibe with you, be your choir. i remember what you're talking about. there's a variety of reasons we no longer have that here. it ranges from the internet, to lack of venues, to closing of late night eateries, to even stricter attitudes about smoking, to the megachurch takeover of christian culture, to the crossploitation music scene, and mudvayne's assertion of Peoria as some sort of haven for crap music.
the only way to see an all-ages show that isn't harcore or metal is to go to the god squad, and all that music is atrocious. coincidentally, they happen to be more into drugging, drinking, and whoring than i remember kids being when i was ignoring DWM at the legion hall.
there is still art here. some of it is in hibernation, some of it has rotated phase, and some of it got old enough to drink. you know where it is, go see it.
i'm not playing out right now. it's been well-established that the only people who think the STGB should play in public is the punter, and we all know that Peoria venue maintainers care about as much as that as Peoria government cares about keeping business here which isn't yellow. We've proven that you can have a crowd, keep a crowd, be polite, tip your staff, and still get fired because you're weird. then when you go to book another gig, and are asked where you played last and you tell them, and they asked you what happened, and you tell them, they assume you're crap because you were fired. your local opportunities thin out.
then you think that making a bio like this is a good idea, which it isn't. however it seems that ejaculating into the mouth of a bar owner puts you on the fast track towards steady gigs ... so you start to think this is a good idea ... then you kick it up a notch and make a site like this and all of a sudden you can't even stop to take a breath.
or you keep your pride, fire up the soldering iron, crack open the bourbon, and find a new outlet for Peoria bohemia.
i suppose i'm part of the problem. not really leaving here too much anymore except to go down to the piano bar when i can pull myself out.
so maybe i only put 5 good years of service in. unfortunately there is a whole generation of Halo-playing dumb####s that will never even see a show. kids who actually think David Crowder is good. kids who think that shopping at Hot Topic and waiting for the new Evanescence album is somewhere approaching as cool as thumbing through the distributor catalogue at Coconuts, desperately looking for that album which the article in the (print) AMG said had something to do with that musician you liked. kids that watch Salad Fingers movies on U-Toob and quote inane non-sequiters with their friends while even crap figurehead hipsterite Conor Oberst fades from collective consciousness.
i mean seriously ... it's getting bad enough even the shit i make fun of is 3 years old, going on longer.
there was a story in the Cue section today. a wire story about trouble the "hip hop" genre is in right now. apparently not one of the top ten albums of the year (2006 or 2007? i can't remember) was a "hip hop" album. does this mean the bling-hop juggarnaut has lost its steam? i mean Nas is now saying "yeah there's nothing but trash coming out of hip-hop."
there is a very slim possibility that we are not at the beginning of a dark time but the end of one. a very very slim possibility.
i personally am excited by 2 new albums coming out in March. of course they are old artists ... SImply Red and Tracey Thorn (Everything But the Girl) both have albums coming out this month. you can bet your ass i'll have both of them by the time Doctor Who returns to TV at the end of the month. i'm willing to bet that the Tracey Thorn album is much much better, but i'm going to give that ginger Mick a chance here.