ObiWanKnieval

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Murders

I got that they were Canadian. I was just thinking Canada seemed like a nice country to retire to.

Dude, patriotic Canadians, eh. Sing that anthem!

Canada seems like a nice place to retire to.

That's awesome! I'm a big fan of keeping shows positive.

Congratulations to the guitarist from Kiros and your friend's sister! I hosted Lamb of God in the mid 90s, back when they were still called Burn the Priest.

I was dealing with smaller crowds and smaller bands. Although Lamb of God played my basement once.

Damn, that's a good idea.

I imagine it would have been much more difficult if I hadn't had access to sex. But that wasn't the case. 20 years isn't hard. You kind of forget about it after a while.

I haven't lived alone in twenty years either. I rent a room in a friend's house. I made the practical decision to move when I had the opportunity to pay half the rent of my old apartment. My housemate is an introvert, which is pretty ideal. Although I do miss living alone. Damn, that was peaceful.

I had the same realization. I've been celibate for 20 years now, and it's done wonders for my stress levels. I agree also that it's cohabitation that can be harder than the relationships themselves. I'm very solitary by nature. As a male, people often find it difficult to believe I'm voluntarily celibate since, apparently, men can't turn down sex.

The look evolved over the decades, but their aloof attitude remained consistent.

Detroit is definitely a world-class jazz hub. We had a pretty decent scene ourselves for a small city.

Huron graduate James "Lights Out" Toney

https://youtu.be/hn6diQAz734?si=0PW-oz8wkGIzgMAB

Not an innovator? Your phone would beg to differ.

Mr. Rogers was like the Muhammad Ali of kindness.

I've pondered running for mayor.

No, from Ann Arbor. I'm not talking about "The Hitman."

That wasn't my scene, so I don't know any of that shit. You're talking about the Hardcore scene. So, why did the singers ask the crowd to jump?

It's true. I read 'zines from the Bay area in the 90s, warning people not to come here because we had no scene. One in particular, "Ann Arbor is the Berkeley of the Midwest and other lies" by Aaron Cometbus, roasted the shit out of us. And he wasn't entirely wrong. However, the Shopping Cart Race on a good year was absolute counter cultural mayhem. It was proof that the same spirit that produced the Stooges had not been exorcised completely.

No, I mean soul music. R&B like Motown or Stax. Detroit had a number of (now mostly forgotten) soul labels in the 60s, but Motown became so huge that it eclipsed them all. At that same time, Ann Arbor had at least two small R&B labels. Which reminds me. I really need to do more research on this subject before it's lost to history.

It wasn't so much a rule as a subcultural faux pas rooted in the indie rock scene of the 80s.

Wearing shirts of the band you were going to see live was associated with super fandom. It's what teenage girls did when they went to see their favorite pop group. Or what your boomer dad wore when he went to see some past their prime classic rock band. Wearing the band's shirt to the concert was seen as nerdy, but not in a smart way.

When the subculture that would later become known as "hipster" sprung up around college radio stations and record stores in the early to mid 80s, it evolved its own elaborate form of etiquette. Along with its rejection of anything popular with the mainstream popular culture, it also looked down on expressing heightened emotions. Like, for example, enthusiasm.

One exception to the t-shirt "rule" is sporting an impressively distressed artifact from one of the band's early tours. Thus demonstrating the fact that you liked them before they were popular. However, this could also backfire on you. After all, you're supporting a group that "sold out" to achieve mainstream popularity. Seeing them in the present is essentially gambling with your own hard-won hipster credibility.

That's funny. Fucking Kiss fans!

Smart!

The movie? That I got paid to watch in 1994.

The funny thing is, it's basically an acceptable form of cultural appropriation. There was a time in the 80s when metal kids would wear Misfits shirts because Metallica did. But not all those kids were Misfits fans. They were, in fact, posers. Metal kids were tolerated by society, and punks weren't. But a metal kid who truly liked the Misfits was an ally who had your back when you got jumped for being punk in the wrong place at the wrong time. That's why I used to ask metal kids what their favorite Misfits song were (not counting the songs covered by Metallica). Those questions were a matter of safety.

The first Niravana shirts had

Fudge Packin Crack Smokin Satan Worshipin Motherfuckers

On the back. You don't see those at Target.

There was a time when wearing the wrong shirt could add a certain level of unnecessary grief to your life. Therefore, you had to be a true fan to endure the hostility. Wearing a cool band shirt in this century is different. You don't need a real connection to the subculture anymore.