I think probably what you mean though is more of an objective documentation of the music by more academic writers and archivists. I wanted to contribute to that narrative with Psychiatric Tissues, perhaps provide more facts for people to mull over. There is a common narrative of mostly people who weren’t there but are looking back on the folklore of that time. I am on some Facebook groups, Reddit, and discord servers where people have really gone over those years well. Are there any groups/levels that you would like to see given more attention and acclaim? The mid 90s to mid-00s independent/underground music scenes are still under documented in books/films etc. Psychologically it may have been helpful rather than harmful.
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I remember reading in 2004 or so that Skinny Puppy’s music was used by the US military for torturing prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, I thought that was ironic because as abrasive as they may be their politics are quite Left leaning. But I did like Skinny Puppy, Christian Death, Alien Sex Fiend and Bauhaus. I listed to Skinny Puppy when I was with the “progressive” kids, then an hour later I’d be with the Deadheads and would be spinning around to some bootleg recording of Bertha from 1971. I wondered what attracted you to them and what you think of them now?Īdmittedly, I was quite confused, generally, as a person and particularly about music. There are so many details that are stories in themselves that leap from the page, like your reference to liking Skinny Puppy as a teenager in contrast to your contemporaries. It had to be written this way to be consistent with the way the band always was. I wrote it intentionally in a low-brow style, because we were a low-brow band. A few people were upset because they were not in the book, but that was because in my mind they must have not been important or salient in my experience. I recognized there are some errors, but I figure if it is wrong, that is how I remembered it. Since it is a timeline structure it often was challenging to figure out what came in what order. It was written in a fever pitch, thousands of words a day. How did the book transform over the time it took you to put it together? There definitely was some Joan Didion influence, particularly the way she showed the uglier side of counter-culture in such a stylistically beautiful way in her essays. I also researched a lot of the magazines that did interviews with AOR, like Skyscraper and an article in Thrasher Magazine. I re-read the Frank Zappa book which I think is an eclectic and amazing book full of interesting takes. I read many of Lydia Lunch’s books, all are great, but her fiction/memoir Paradoxia is fantastic.
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I was greatly inspired by Nick Tosches, one of the best music biographers ever.