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| From | "Robert Mootz" <thinkzinc@msn.com> |
| Subject | Jesus played bass... |
| Date | Thu, 8 Jan 2004 20:48:06 -0800 |
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Lee said:
"I would not listen to a band that had an album with ten songs advocating becoming a junkie, telling kids at their shows between songs to become junkies, and handing out literature after to teach the proper way to be a junkie. But if a junkie writes a realistic song about the hell being a junkie put him/her through - I might buy that.
You could substitute 'christian' for 'junkie' - and the above statement would still be true (for me)."
I say:
Bingo.
It's the monothematic-only-thing-you-ever-eat-sing-or-breathe and you're-wrong-if-you-don't-eat-sleep-or-breath-about it the same way and boy-if-we-could-only-make-everyone-else-be-just-like-us that gets in the way of any obsession music for me (Christian or otherwise).
That said, I love the Elms, I've gone to great lengths to find Dan Peek LPs and CDs and count me as a major, nearly completist fan of Mr. Harrison and the Kabalas. And I'm a Christian. Life has lots to offer, spirituality is one part of it. For me music's gotta connect all over the place, structure, melody, phonetics of words within the context of the tune's structure. If I had a six CD box set of tunes with every single song containing my very favorite T.Rex riff, I'd burn out on that at Disc 1, Track 4 too. No, wait, make that Track 6.
Bob
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