My old friend Adam is one of those guys who knows more about music than God, but whose taste invariably sticks towards unimpeachable classics and well-knowns. While the rest of our group of friends, circa 2005 or so, would be fawning over some 7” somebody got, Adam would be listening to, and talking everyone’s ear off about, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen or, his favorite, The Clash. Nothing wrong with that, obviously, but his taste sometimes ran afoul of everybody else’s when he’d start evangelizing the likes of U2, whose body of work he enjoyed and, I assume, continues to enjoy more or less in toto. One particularly heated night, somebody asked him what the fuck he was thinking by sticking by U2, with the concomitant exorbitant ticket prices and not-changing-the-radio-station that go along with it.
“If it weren’t for U2,” he said, “a way shittier band than U2 would be the most popular band in the world. You’ve got to give them that.”
I couldn’t disagree.
Actually, wait, I typed this out because I thought the analogy worked, but it doesn’t, because if it weren’t for Phil Jackson then Red Auerbach would still be the undisputed Greatest NBA Coach Of All Time, and Red Auerbach is way less shitty than Phil Jackson, so nevermind. Anyway, Adam’s got a pretty good thing going these days, writing for the Nashville Scene here.
(Edit: How did I leave an apostrophe in “Thoughts” for so long? Disgraceful.)
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trivialrecords said:
I do not know who Phil Jackson is, but appreciate this philosophy.
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