Podcast related. Good one again. It is really the harsh noise talk, so podcast doesn't go that deep into any theme, concept or such, but stays on noise. I like this episode a lot for the: anecdotes! That whole machete story was funny. This is one thing, what made some interviews like Bananafish legendary, as they included something I would call noise folklore.
Funny, strange, obscure stories, what gives the noise the context. What type of characters there operates, what types of people are drawn into it, what shapes their noise. I think that is vastly more crucial than what pedal one uses. Although, in Paranoid Time episode the rat -pedal talk was funny. I think there is also difference with old rat and the rat you can buy these days? For example Pain Nail uses quite often the old vintage RAT pedal. It is really dirty and savage pedal. It may not be best for massive harsh blast, but for decayed bleak industrial sound, certainly works better than Death Metal or Metalzone pedals, for example. I have been told new RAT doesn't have same sound anymore as the original, even if they claim it is "largely the same"?
Well, anyways, the noise folklore, sort of unwritten stories you know, heard of, or experienced and told forward, that is something what could be good topic. I think some more nasty stuff, maybe be something that people involved do not want to be recognized for. Nevertheless, these stories are sort of juice of noise. As great as the bands are, I am sure they would be thought differently, if Mikawa was not banker. If early Hijokaidan stage chaos did not happen. If John Duncan didn't do certain performances. If Mayuko Hino would have not been bondage related. If Whitehouse didn't have "riots", haha. Metgumbnerbone crawling in sewers, and so on and on. There is countless anecdotes from contemporary noise (say 2000's) which basically never are "told" in same ways as the good old folklore. I would say that this seems to be one element why bands/artists seem distant? When just about every trip to noise gig had something odd noise related happening, that would contribute to kind of understanding artists urges or the "climate", the spirit and surroundings, and there would be stories that are as nice as Hanatarishi driving the... thing. Yet Hanatarashi is the folklore everybody knows.
Related story, it was really funny when SNOTNOSED played with Emil B, Prurient and so on back in... 2008? something like that. 2nd floor of normal pub. Full carpets on the floors, UK style, nice restaurant type of thing. Snotnosed starts to break glass into his forehead, bleeding, making acoustic havoc on place where it was totally unexpected. Suddenly pulling out full sized slegdehammer, and hitting it with full power to the floor. You could feel entire huge building tremble and I was sure this is it. Show will be over, and there's no way it could continue. It did. No biggie. Full room of people dining downstairs and broken glass and sledgehammers upstairs as if someone is tearing the place apart... haha...
Like mentioned thing, that PE has the dark subject/concepts, and people taking it too seriously.. hmm. I am not sure about that. I know what it means, but when being somewhere in Europe, seeing PE singer sniffing fresh shemale panties he just purchased. Not only for the show, but just for personal pleasures... Even when just minding his own business, you could see him just once in a while pulling them out of the pocket and sniffing the piss soaked panties.. dark? I doubt it! Hilarious stuff. Bunch of guys blurting out "hey, you're sniffing some guys piss there", and man just diving face first into wet panties. Full story probably can't be told in way it would be as funny as it is. When knowing the noise work that is related to this, and bunch of anecdotes that tell a bit from where this material emerges, it seems to give more perspective than knowing that they may use "SP-202 and delay".
I don't think any podcast would need to start blasting some noise drama, nor be therapy sessions, nor to glorify "unacceptable behavior", but I think one knows what I mean with the anecdotes, noise folklore, I hope more of that. There is so much of it what could give life to the somewhat anonymous and distant works.
This episode was good in a way, that instead of interview, it was partly also like discussion. Oskar telling the machete story in full length. I think this type of approach would probably direct talk to good things.
