Monday, March 28, 2005
power station
The connection of this picture to the music of Pink Floyd is, in reality, tenuous, but pretty obvious:
...In the late 1980's, Yakutsk musicians in the Arctic regions of Siberia became obsessed with the music of Pink Floyd. All the best young bands sounded like Pink Floyd except somehow more immediate and more authentic. It was a cargo-culture phenomenon. Asked to explain how a renegade copy of Dark Side of the Moon could galvanize an entire subculture, one musician said, "The sound reminded us of the snow."Destiny in My Right Hand: "The Wreck of Old '97" and "Dead Man's Curve" an essay by Dave Thomas (lead singer and founder of Pere Ubu) in The Rose and The Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad. edited by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus, Norton, New York, 2005.
# posted by nick @ 9:27 am 
