Yup, it's more of the same! But also different!
Really, you're getting off easy...
Let's be real... I have PROFESSIONAL COLLEAGUES over at the EDUCATION podcast who have been waiting for a danged long time as well...
CAUSE I'M A PROFESSIONAL WITH A JOB NOW WEE-HEE HOO HOO
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Clunk
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According to Dan's notes, this episode is probably part one of a series on mixed media! Not to be confused with multimedia! Cause that would be a crime against aesthetics...
We've got links! You know (?) you wanna click 'em...
https://youtu.be/Xmn8HpTPeLc The world's changing... and the monsters gotta change with it! #bogmonstermusic
Podcasts are not as cool as travelling by jetpack, but a damn sight cooler than getting mauled to death by submariner zombies... #bogmonstermusic
Here's a playlist if you care to partake!
Dan's Notes
Mixed Media special
Two books, two movies and a podcast about bands and music and or being in a band (and what folks in bands do when not in bands)
Books:
I’m not holding your coat by Nancy Barile
https://youtu.be/nwN_f74LQFA clip of author talking about teaching and Punk
Originally conceived as the first half of a book on how life lessons learned as a participant in the nascent American hardcore scene made her a better educator, Nancy Barile’s memoir reads like the shaved-heads-and-suburban-circle-pits version of Patti Smith’s Just Kids. Barile details her time booking all ages shows in Philadelphia and later Boston in the late 70’s and early 80’s, at dawn of the DIY touring loop for hardcore punk bands looking to play for all ages crowds outside of the traditional bar scene, when bands like The Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains and Minor Threat were the ones showing to play your local church basement or VFW hall. There are bombings and biker fights and lifelong friendships and lovers met through trying to build something outside of the mainstream music scene of the era. She was inspired to tell her story after a wave of nostalgia for the early 80’s scene seemed to exclude and belittle the women who were involved with things in that era, so she wanted to let the world know that in the words of 7Seconds, it was “Not Just Boys’ Fun”. I love reading about the histories behind different local scenes and Philadelphia seems to have its own “unique” culture in regards to all kinds of music and sports fandoms so it was cool to hear Barile’s stories of the beginners of the hardcore scene there. She also recounts how she met her eventual husband Al through booking shows for his band, Boston’s iconic SS Decontrol, which led to her becoming a member of their infamous “Boston Crew” that travelled around to shows all around the Northeastern US at the time as well. I thought it was really cool look at the beginnings of the more grassroots DIY end of the hardcore punk scene and definitely worth a read.
Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk - essays by Sam McPheeters
https://youtu.be/Zyno8vqdjBM Born Against -
My Favorite Housing Project
https://youtu.be/fMwcamFrO0s Men’s Recovery Project - Normal Man
Born Against are one of my favourite punk bands ever, full stop, and their frontman Sam McPheeters’ dark sarcastic lyrics were a big part of that. I even stuck along following his musical career through his more experimental Men’s Recovery Project albums that were as much him trolling his listeners as they were a “band”, and enjoyed his columns for Maximum Rock N Roll and other publications. Somewhere in the 00’s McPheeters fell in with Vice and started working on becoming a “real writer” and publishing a couple of novels before releasing this collection of essays that serve as a brutal dissection of his earlier works as well as expressing his thoughts on a music community he had somewhat grown up/away from and his own place in that community, as well as his thoughts on various artists who were formative to his growth,