>I was within oh, 15 feet last night of Richard
>Buckner as he played an abolutely riveting set and was surrounded on each
side
>by groups of folks who could not shut up
>dan bentele
Though this doesn't surprise me in the big picture, in a smaller sense I
don't get it. Aside from weaselly industry outposts like LA and New York (or
sites of conventions, seminars, and such which corral in those industry
weasels), who would go to a Buckner show to talk? The kind of music that
Buckner writes seems to presuppose an audience that is cultishly devoted on
one hand, or just a lover of well-written language on the other. It's one
thing to talk during a band like Better Than Ezra. Their popularity is in a
demographic that tends to view music as a "place" to be seen and not
necessarily a "thing" to be heard. But Buckner?!?! How can his show be the
"place to be seen?" That assumes that Buckner has word-of-mouth "street
cred," but wouldn't the word-of-mouth say that his word is MUCH MORE
creative than whatever spills out of your cakehole? I don't get it, like I
said, in the small picture. In the big picture it's obvious. "Hey, Fuckface!
You're not in your living room watching TV! And that guy on stage is NOT a
cathode-ray figment of your delusional self-importance! Shut the Fuck
up!!!!!!!"
Lance . . . feeling pain . . .
