Fantastic read! It can be hard to dive into some of these earlier eras without just digging through YouTube playlists or crawling through old set lists - commentary like this helps later generations of heads find an easier starting point to the scenes of the earlier days, when physical distribution of records was the only option and drove a lot of the discovery and listening habits of artists+fans.
This is the first post I’ve read from this Substack, and I subscribed immediately! I’m excited to go through your post history and learn more.
Thanks! I'm actually working on a piece that works through exactly what you're talking about with the contextlessness of discovering all this stuff today. But I have a bunch of other projects that are more urgent, so who knows when that'll be finished -- hopefully some time this year, still!
Fantastic read! It can be hard to dive into some of these earlier eras without just digging through YouTube playlists or crawling through old set lists - commentary like this helps later generations of heads find an easier starting point to the scenes of the earlier days, when physical distribution of records was the only option and drove a lot of the discovery and listening habits of artists+fans.
This is the first post I’ve read from this Substack, and I subscribed immediately! I’m excited to go through your post history and learn more.
Thanks! I'm actually working on a piece that works through exactly what you're talking about with the contextlessness of discovering all this stuff today. But I have a bunch of other projects that are more urgent, so who knows when that'll be finished -- hopefully some time this year, still!
this was so great—loved the very succinct career timeline and the per-track commentary!