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Joe Regan's avatar

Related to your "Defined by negatives" post, here's a half hour clip of the Talking Heads as a 3 piece in early 1976.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fdLi_60SIQ

https://thekitchen.org/on-file/live-at-the-kitchen/ (background)

I found this thanks to Jesse Rifkin's recent book, THIS MUST BE THE PLACE: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City. Loved the book, highly recommended to anyone interested in NYC, late 20th century music scenes, and the concept of "scenius" (mentioned on pg. 13!) in general.

Very well organized (loved the $100 equivalency chart across the decades), very pragmatic (venues that didn't depend on music turning a profit were able to take more chances in booking, free or cheap food for artists helped foster community), and comprehensive including lesser documented scenes like loft jazz and anti-folk in addition the better known folk, disco, and punk ones.

https://www.harpercollins.com/products/this-must-be-the-place-jesse-rifkin

(I was also fortunate enough to take one of Jesse's NYC punk walking tours which was utterly amazing and informative and really gave me a physical context to the scene i.e. "a lot of these places were really close together" :D)

https://walkonthewildsidenyc.com

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Chris Padilla's avatar

It doesn't get much better than Carl Barks!! Excellent points on a balanced view of technology.

Beautiful quote from Dyer — will be keeping carrying that with me for a while

Lastly, thank you for the Free Play recommendation from last week!! I've read through most of it and it's simply wonderful. A beautiful view on how creative practices are the playground which we cultivate a greater intuition for our daily lives.

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