Which bands do I enjoy on a regular basis? I go from band to band. I heard about twenty bands in July, and I liked them all. I see where they show up in news, myspace, clubs. On the radio, I'm listening to BOB FM, a station format that, like an iPod, plays everything.
Keep in mind, I'm a Flintoid (album and big hair rocker) from the Flint, Michigan era about the same age as Michael Moore, a famous Flintoid. So my early rock and roller days were imprinted by Led Zeppelin, Creme, Bruce Springstreen, the Ramones and even, oh gawd, Abba.
What really catches me is respect for tradition: last night I was crusing home, and my radio picked up Peter Schilling's Major Tom, still fresh after 24 years, recorded in 1983, 14 years after Bowie's song hit the radiowaves. Schillngs's song gives respect to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" recorded in my sixth year of life, 1969, 38 years before today. Even better, Schilling's song originated in Germany in a German language version.
Here's the story of Schillings's song in another righteous place, the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Tom. A song that crosses decades and cultures and languages is a song with shamanic power, and I am constantly on a mission to find bands and songs that have shamanic legs, so to speak.
Can the music that you write be shamanic, linking the spiritual world of music past with the spiritual world of music future? It's a powerful and fun place from which a band can create music.
Wilbo's Gloating Like A Wise Man, Far Over Done ....
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