Quote from: SILVUM on November 17, 2018, 01:36:45 AM
Shitting on Boyd Rice is just ignorance to the history of industrial and noise. Seeing dorks whine about him underlines an inability to contextualize and enhances a justification for dismissal and contempt for their pedestrian wank opinions. Grasp where he's coming from (or DON'T - you obviously won't if you're DEAD set on being a whiny bitch). If you're so fucking useless that you compare work he did in the late 70's based on a West Coast USA LAFMS / Exotica-trash culture fanatic context vs MODERN laptop and look at my collection - I can google now mommy - bullshit, then just fucking don't talk. It's fact. You can defend yourself from your own fears, but his works rules, shut. UP.
DISMISSING his work as historically un-important is empty and ignorant. Saying you don't like it - fine - valid, you're just boring, line up.
Yeah like, early Mizutani and Akita Merzbow from 83 sucks compared to.. whatever pedal collecting 00's no sex dork fuckery you scumfucks sperm on, but for 83 it's cool, and yeah I get it, Boyd talks about himself too much, but most real artists are doing their thing, not worrying about who is stamping their ticket. Wish I was close to that integrity.
I have heard it many times, that NON / Boyd Rice was good before he turned out to be
asshole. I know a lot of people rate their musical experience like that, but I can't really relate. Or even personal experiences. Like getting kicked out from gig for Merzbows requests, does it make me think less of Merzbows stuff? Not at all. Some lose their interest over
apolitical person not having good political view, hah..
For honking his own horn, when in question of doing shows, giving interviews, I'd assume that is rather natural way to go. If people are interested in what he does, and he replies their inquiries, why not? Someone may argue that there are way more vital current artists out there, which based on musical merits should be a fact. Therefore would be good to cover them instead of still revolve around handful of old timers. Probably yes, but there are many channels to do that. Boyd you will most often find from big music press who cover the known artists - such as 40 years active veterans. For fresh blood and interesting new names, you can grab Noise Receptor, Special Interests, New Forces, Troubled Sleep and such zines to read about those who may have been around for just couple years to couple decades. One can open topic of the artist they feel strongly about. Conduct inteview with artists they like and post it online or give it to 'zines to publish. But no. It is surprisingly few who would do the utterly simple things to make change to direction they desire. In the end, it happens to be that besides farting opinions, self promotion, networking, guys like Boyd actually got things done. It is usually not the case with noise tourists and people who watch from the sidelines.
