Re: (TV) Scenes

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

At 8:08 AM -0500 7/16/01, Ken Thompsen wrote:
> Do you have anything going on in your respective towns as far as art and
> music goes (I ask all of you New Yorkers and Brits as well)?

Pittsburgh's kind of odd, in that there are a lot of people doing 
different things, but...there are these little sub-scenes that don't 
seem to interact much with each other.  It seemed to me that there 
was more of an "indie rock" scene in the early-mid '90s, but we lost 
musicians to other cities (some of the most attractive low-rent 
housing was bought and demolished, or turned into yuppie condos) and 
this city's particular musical scourge, Library and Information 
Science.  (For example, Don Caballero lost _two_ members to LIS, 
and...was it Hurl who lost someone to it, also?  Pittsburgh's 
equivalent to Seattle's heroin, I swear.)  We also just lost a major 
venue for smaller shows, which would book both local and national 
acts.

Since then, the scene seems to have fragmented.  There's some hippy 
jam-band stuff, ethereal electronic stuff, old-school punk, alt 
country, rootsy stuff, free noise, improv, jazz...and I'm just 
thinking of genres I have friends in.  (Full disclosure--I've been 
doing glitch/noise improv lately.)   Off the top of my head, there's 
the goth scene and the rave scene also.  But it doesn't seem like 
there's any one core of people constituting one overarching scene.

Sam, help me out here--think there's anything to this, or am I just 
missing the big picture?

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Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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