(a) I’ve already had one person come after me about poor Bryan, and another who didn’t like even a sidelong look at Bruce (the working man’s rocker worth over a billion dollars still touring for profit — not charity — at the age of 75). (b) I watch that baseball video whenever I need a cheer up. Love it.
Tickets in Winnipeg were generally over $1000 and up. Yet, if you listen to 'My Father's House' as an example, you see who he really is. He grew up poor, likely abused, with a mentally ill father who had WWII war trauma. When you are hungry or "like a dog who has been beat too much" your drive for money and security is beyond most people's understanding - I lived this through my own father. No one with fame or money sees clearly. On one hand he is Tony Soprano, a hustler, but just the other side of the coin which is a much more useful life. Could be the greatest songwriter of his generation but for his past, I think. You only got three minutes or so, you do what you can to get the point across
Once a peer of Bob Dylan said that people said he sold out. There was then, as now, a cultural illuminati, who held high ideals and so forth and determined these judgments. One astute folk singer who knew him before he found success noted that all of them in their mileu, deep down, wanted what he had but could not admit it to themselves. I think when we face that, we are free.
All of my roasting would fall away in a minute if he (and all these guys, like the Rolling Stones) toured for charity. Then: great, have at it. You're providing employment, tourism dollars, giving back and entertaining people who want to deal in nostalgia. But the profit motive is inexcusable. No one needs that much money. I grew up as poor as it gets, and I'm quite happy (and surprised, and lucky) to have a house with a yard.
There is a particular type of wound I do not think you understand that cannot be resolved through this type of reason - of course is totally unfair and a thinking through it one would conclude to give it all away. I agree. My experience is with a child's eye which always sees things through power for which money is only an extension. Everybody can't figure Trump out but it is the same wound even though he came from wealth. It is somatic and you see it in the extremity. You see it in the distortions of the bodies on each pole of that spectrum. That is where the forces comes from to act this out - the energy in the wound. Great literature explains it but will not resolve it. Springsteen's trick is that, he knows this on some level, and others respond to it in themselves - it is also Trump's racket.
My intuition says that you would defend your point to the end so I will stop. I could never debate you are far brighter than me. I generally erase the comments feeling like I am foolish.
One reason I collect your pieces is that they embody what I spoke to. Don't understand why that connection is not there between what I see in the work and your point - it is all right in those pictures. The art I see at the museum - didactic. Yours is not but to think that people are going to find a way to power and then say let's make money and give it away! I don't see that in your images. Thanks, Darryl.
I never liked either of them. Bryan Adams is awful and Springsteen groupies are as dull witted as his “compositions “ are. No-Brainer muszak with insipid lyrics. Couldn’t get the video to play…
We may be the only Canadians that DON'T like (fawn, love, drool over) Bryan Adams. Not a fan of his music. Even less of a fan of HIM.
Also. That video? Rocks. LOVE her "in your face" battle cry at the end. Yah. Ya did. You go girl!
(a) I’ve already had one person come after me about poor Bryan, and another who didn’t like even a sidelong look at Bruce (the working man’s rocker worth over a billion dollars still touring for profit — not charity — at the age of 75). (b) I watch that baseball video whenever I need a cheer up. Love it.
Don't get me started on Springsteen. 🤣
Tickets in Winnipeg were generally over $1000 and up. Yet, if you listen to 'My Father's House' as an example, you see who he really is. He grew up poor, likely abused, with a mentally ill father who had WWII war trauma. When you are hungry or "like a dog who has been beat too much" your drive for money and security is beyond most people's understanding - I lived this through my own father. No one with fame or money sees clearly. On one hand he is Tony Soprano, a hustler, but just the other side of the coin which is a much more useful life. Could be the greatest songwriter of his generation but for his past, I think. You only got three minutes or so, you do what you can to get the point across
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2TGTIXj0s&list=RDQi2TGTIXj0s&start_radio=1
Once a peer of Bob Dylan said that people said he sold out. There was then, as now, a cultural illuminati, who held high ideals and so forth and determined these judgments. One astute folk singer who knew him before he found success noted that all of them in their mileu, deep down, wanted what he had but could not admit it to themselves. I think when we face that, we are free.
All of my roasting would fall away in a minute if he (and all these guys, like the Rolling Stones) toured for charity. Then: great, have at it. You're providing employment, tourism dollars, giving back and entertaining people who want to deal in nostalgia. But the profit motive is inexcusable. No one needs that much money. I grew up as poor as it gets, and I'm quite happy (and surprised, and lucky) to have a house with a yard.
There is a particular type of wound I do not think you understand that cannot be resolved through this type of reason - of course is totally unfair and a thinking through it one would conclude to give it all away. I agree. My experience is with a child's eye which always sees things through power for which money is only an extension. Everybody can't figure Trump out but it is the same wound even though he came from wealth. It is somatic and you see it in the extremity. You see it in the distortions of the bodies on each pole of that spectrum. That is where the forces comes from to act this out - the energy in the wound. Great literature explains it but will not resolve it. Springsteen's trick is that, he knows this on some level, and others respond to it in themselves - it is also Trump's racket.
My intuition says that you would defend your point to the end so I will stop. I could never debate you are far brighter than me. I generally erase the comments feeling like I am foolish.
One reason I collect your pieces is that they embody what I spoke to. Don't understand why that connection is not there between what I see in the work and your point - it is all right in those pictures. The art I see at the museum - didactic. Yours is not but to think that people are going to find a way to power and then say let's make money and give it away! I don't see that in your images. Thanks, Darryl.
I never liked either of them. Bryan Adams is awful and Springsteen groupies are as dull witted as his “compositions “ are. No-Brainer muszak with insipid lyrics. Couldn’t get the video to play…
Don't see much wit in this comment. Just piling on easy targets.
This time with more feeling… trash triumphs.