Comments on: three obsessions http://17dots.com/2007/03/22/three-obsessions/ notes from the digital underground Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 68stationwagon http://17dots.com/2007/03/22/three-obsessions/comment-page-1/#comment-89954 68stationwagon Mon, 11 May 2009 17:05:26 +0000 http://17dots.com/2007/03/22/three-obsessions/#comment-89954 well, yancey - good to see you drop some cred to the gun club. jeffrey lee does indeed have many fine moments...the context of finding out about this band after his passing is awkward. back in the day, you could only get to the city infrequently you'd inevitably confront the signage all over the north side of bands that had come and gone. for every time i saw X, there were plastered reminders of how i just missed the flesheaters. for every time i saw husker du, there was a gg allin placard of a recent gig. however, no show caught will ever soften the disappointment of reading on August 13th that the Gun Club played on July 27. that band is mythical. no "catalog of cool" will ever convey that as much as living in the time it was creating. 68 well, yancey – good to see you drop some cred to the gun club. jeffrey lee does indeed have many fine moments…the context of finding out about this band after his passing is awkward. back in the day, you could only get to the city infrequently you’d inevitably confront the signage all over the north side of bands that had come and gone. for every time i saw X, there were plastered reminders of how i just missed the flesheaters. for every time i saw husker du, there was a gg allin placard of a recent gig. however, no show caught will ever soften the disappointment of reading on August 13th that the Gun Club played on July 27.

that band is mythical. no “catalog of cool” will ever convey that as much as living in the time it was creating.

68

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