“I would hope an OXBOW fan would be more open-minded…” said Dan Adams.
So while listening to the Joe Chiccarelli mixes for the nine songs on next years Love’s Holiday (Ipecac IPC262LP), a discussion ensued regarding…”explaining”.
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So you might still get it wrong but you’d have no excuse for having done so as we laid out, in black and white, as it were, a cryptic guide for how to understand the music that had gone well beyond shopworn comparisons to the Butthole Surfers, the Melvins and Jesus Lizard, all bands we love, but not bands we hear when we hear us. We decided to try to change this dynamic and with the release of Thin Black Duke, we released The Thin Black Book, a limited edition, cloth-bound companion volume. The same words were coming up in other reviews and it seemed that a shorthand was being developed for delivering on an OXBOW review. HOWEVER, after reading review after review of OXBOW’s past records, I had started getting the feeling that while the reviews have all been universally (mostly) laudatory, that maybe, just maybe, people had really stopped listening. I never felt I needed to explain this, and felt no pressure to do so. This bothered me about as much as it would bother me if people thought I was Chinese.
Etienne, then Lyon, would say, “I thought you were Gay? I mean that’s what I heard.” It might help you answer that question yourself.” He then proceeded to announce to people over the years that I was Gay. “Well you should buy the CD with the lyrics. Etienne once asked me at the merch table. “Are OXBOW lyrics about how tough it is to be young, Black and GAY?” A French photographer in St. So while I haven’t spent a whole hell of a lot time explaining, I’ve come to find that explaining is useful. Or the number of interviewers who’d ask a question to Whipping Boy, “so your band is half Black?” while talking to the half that was Black. Pulling into my all Black 8th grade school, the new kid, and the assumption was: he’s BIG, so he must be dumb. The sentiment though, the sense of being out of place while in place, an outsider while never being more of an insider, while it’d not be appropriate to use the word “haunted” has forever been a feature of my time on this planet.Īnd not just for racial reasons if you’d be prone to think that and since that was the implication in the scene where Edson vibed Latino. His cameo in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ? When Ferris asks the previously silent Edson if he speaks English and Edson responds, “what country do you think you’re in ?” Aaron Turner once said after hearing Thin Black Duke for the first time, “not what I expected, but everything I hoped for.” This came to naught but he has become emblematic for me in a very weird and specific way. But he overlooked this and for a period of time we maintained some sort of working relationship with me trying to co-write a screenplay with/for him.
And not just with them but with his other Lower Eastside bands back in the late ‘70s. I immediately texted him, intimating that I had known this all along, but I hadn’t. We talked on about other things, made plans to talk again and then after he left I typed his name into a search engine and found out that he had been the first drummer for Sonic Youth and I had clumsily just maligned Richard Edson. Or I’d like to think it was nothing and that my piss taking hit without me having to take the credit/blame for me being the hitter. He gave me a look but I gave back nothing.
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