All true Brendan
I think he's completely misguided. Why waste time and energy trying to find
reasons to hate on European artists. It's the promoters in the US that are
partially at fault for not booking the US artists. I think all this
resentment stems from the roll of the dice that occurred years ago when
techno/house was first developing in the US. Very few people were paying
attention. It was even more marginalized than it is now. It was
straaaaaaaange music and if you listened to it you also were strange. So
there wasn't any audience in the US. The artists tried to make a living but
found an audience in the UK, Europe, and Japan. So they've packed their
bags and left. Very few people were left here to show American kids the way
- you really had to be in either NYC or Chicago. That is until the rave
scene blew up. By then most of the music and artists might have well been
from outside the US anyway.
So what the f*ck do you do? Get angry at ghosts of the past? It's
pointless.
Pretty much have to be content with how things are OR you can support good
promoters instead of making grand declarations and sweeping judgements.
love from the US
MEK
"Brendan Nelson"
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> That's why my blood starts boiling beyond belief when people
> like this come along blaming europeans for whatever it is we
> are supposed to have done.
I know exactly what you mean - but the thing to bear in mind
is that this guy isn't exactly likely to get a great deal of
support from other people in the US, as generally speaking
the techno scene doesn't appeal to neo-conservatives,
isolationists, ultra-nationalists and other "Fortress America"
types. So what you've got is someone with an extremely marginal
point of view which isn't going to be adopted by other Americans.
It's really easy to get angry, because you basically can't
reason with nationalists. A nationalist will always discount the
viewpoints of foreigners because contempt for the views of
foreigners is pretty much fundamental to the whole concept of
nationalism. So when you don't have any way to engage rationally
with someone, anger is an understandable response. But it's
best to try to suppress that anger; the only people who'd be able
to reason with this guy are other Americans, as these are the
only people he'll ever pay attention to or take seriously.
Brendan
