Lately I have been hearing this word come up and also bands that are doing it. As you may know i was really into this whole thing years back.
On one hand I think its cool to see it again (maybe i havent been looking), as if you ask any of my old bros from the left coast i have said "math is over". That is to say that it had even begun. I mean, come on, jay z didnt do it. suck it.
anyway, there are still bands doing this and lately i have discovered some that i like. i kind of stand proud and un ashamed when these songs play. much different than before. im getting old i guess...or even better, maybe less jaded. this not going to band practice is working i guess. suck it.
i think back to days past where eroc, jefferey and i were sleeping in the van behind that fucking venue in lansing michigan...drunk on pbr and complimenting each other on how well we played for 15 people at best. it seemed to mean something back then. there was broken glass underneath the van as i remember almost slipping on it at a very early and hazy 6am with a parliament light, a full tank of gas and an almost always positive jeffery (the tbp bassist) egging the whole thing on. i got in the van a drove off to the next disaster that wouldnt be realized until we knew more about the "music business". suck it.
it all seems to makes sense that these bands tread on. i mean, it is the future. i always knew that, man. i always knew that whole lost genre of "math rock" was way the fuck ahead of its time, that is to say if there is a time that would accept it. who knows? someone gave me a cd that had the band "the screamers" playing like 2 live shows and some demo takes way back in the 80`s. someone obviously liked it enough to make a lp for them with all of this extra stuff. it ended up in my cd graveyard. the screamers btw was one of the first "electro punk" bands. thick, cheap, analog synth. nice stuff. if you are anything like me you wont go find them, event tho they rule, and one day in the futre of conversation you will say "yeah, ive heard of them", as if you know them. suck it.
this is why i love music so much.
the thing that i have seemed to forget over the touring touring touring is that someone likes it. even maybe a few. way back then i gave a fuck about all of that and thats why i started in the first place. way back when i only knew how to do barr chords with my amp turned way loud. go figure. suck it.
i spend most of my days, now, working more than i thought i could ever do. most nights i just come home, make some little "quick fire" thing for dinner, maybe drop an advil PM and wait until my alarm goes off to repeat the whole process. its really not so bad. I have spent my whole life, this far, doing things i said i would never do. i suspect this pattern will never change and after all these years this whole idea seems comfortable.
yours truely,
AP schroder (nyc)
