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| Why watch Guided by Voices ten yards away when you can watch them on your camera ten inches away? |
SAM COOMES: People used to come to those shows, when it was underground rock, to get loose and lose their shit. Now the motivations are different—they come to make YouTube videos on their iPhones. I don’t know what the fuck is going on…. In your mind you think the older generation is complaining that the kids are too crazy or too weird and they can’t understand it, but now it’s kind of the opposite: The older people today are complaining that the kids are too well-behaved and clean and commercialized. It’s a strange turn of events. Satyricon definitely represents that old era for me.
--from the Willamette Week's oral history of doomed and beloved skanky rock dive Satyricon.
See also the terrifying NYT Sunday Styles piece last week about the iPhone as baby-hypnotist.
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