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Post by andyhowell on Apr 2, 2016 15:01:19 GMT
Observed and overheard in a Denmark Street music shop this morning.
In comes a late 50's something guy with a Golders Green accent. He's looking at a rather shiny and expensive, hollow bodied, electric. Over comes a rather ernest shop person, a thin as anything and with a complexion that looks as if his skin has never seen the sun (musos, you know the kind). Shop person: That's a great guitar. What king of music do you play?
I'm a drummer in a punk band really, but I need a guitar for a couple of numbers.
Shop person: I'm in a punk band, what are you like?
Well, we play the kind of punk that nobody likes.
Shop person (clearly trying very hard to be empathetic): What kind of punk is it, do you aim to sound like someone?
Well, that's the problem. We slip between punk genres, but it doesn't matter because nobody likes it.
When we are rehearsing and jamming we sometimes sound like Television, but when we do our own stuff nobody likes it.
Don't get me wrong (he says seriously). We've made four albums. And we did it properly and all. But nobody likes it.
That's the thing. We play punk that nobody likes.
Shop assistant (clearly digging deep) Well, that's the great thing about the internet isn't it. It's magic for very narrow niches.
Oh,. we do all that stuff, Soundcloud and Reverb Nation. But the thing is nobody likes our stuff at all. Nobody.
He did buy the guitar and left looking a very happy man, no doubt reassured that nobody still liked his music! (It was very loud, not very tuneful and soul-less)
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Post by maninashed on Apr 2, 2016 19:00:10 GMT
Sounds like he's not about to sell out then.
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Post by Riverman on Apr 2, 2016 19:11:32 GMT
I've never heard his stuff. I don't like it though
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Post by andyhowell on Apr 2, 2016 21:42:21 GMT
Sounds like he's not about to sell out then. True. He seemed to revel in it all :-)
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Post by Cams on Apr 7, 2016 13:54:00 GMT
I've never heard his stuff. I don't like it though Way to make me spray coffee on my laptop. I'll be chuckling away at that comment for a while.
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Post by Martin on Apr 7, 2016 14:04:01 GMT
I've never heard his stuff. I don't like it though
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Post by ocarolan on Apr 7, 2016 14:27:07 GMT
...ah, so you've grown at least some of your beard back Martin! Keith
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Post by Martin on Apr 7, 2016 14:31:01 GMT
Yes sir! And I've acquired a beautifully languid demeanour brought on by the over-consumption of illicit sweeties
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