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:	post by the_taste_of_cigarettes at 2004-09-28 11:48:33

bah, I was saying that traditionally the media has taken one approach to portraying history versus what is considered colloqiual history. With something like basement shows, where no one is writing down what happens every time, facts get lost along the lines. With something like this, where the only way the reporters are going to know the truth is if people speak up, that takes a great vouch of faith that a) anyone that they interview will know the history or remember it, or b) that people are selfless enough to give credit to someone else when their 15 minutes rolls around.

I'm just saying I doubt that will happen, and yet everyone that reads the article will go "Oh! So Basement shows started with the HOSS, I get it".

That's sad because people like Craig spent over 10 years building up that scene using money they never got back, time they will never get back, and resources that can't be replenished.

A good example of what I meant would be if someone said the Phoenix was running an article on Metal and said, "Metal? What is it? Well, it has it's roots with undisputadly the kings of metal, Metallica. Before them, there was no metal, and all the bands today that ARE metal come from them. The word Metal comes from the name "Metallica"". And everyone that hasn't heard much metal goes OHHHHH ok I get it, that makes sense. But you negate the history of a culture when that happens.

But I have no way of knowing how the article is till it's published. It could just be about the current status of basement shows, how some bands mostly play those, in which case it need not be an issue of the history of them. If that's the case then my worry is unnecessary.

I'm just worried when reporters say they are going to give the populace the "real" story behind something, but then you open it and it's like that Metallica analogy. In this particular case I saw how hard those people worked, and now there's a chance they might get overlooked for nearly a decade of selfless work, you know? If it was a local zine writing the story I wouldn't be so like Hmmmm but it's a paper that gets quite a bit of distribution, so the facts need to be as tight as possible, and the Phoenix doesn't always do that.

So really it's just preamble, not shit talking. Jonah just says it is cause he likes conflict.

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