Still Stupid After All These Years
When I was twenty, I was in a band with the world at my feet, as all twenty year olds in bands will know.
We spent summer evenings down at Windsor Old Trout, treading a thin line between sobriety and nervousness before going on stage. The day after seeing Sebadoh play there we were the headline and later that night Kurt Cobain died. Our other guitarist was gutted, but I remember not being moved too much by it. I went back to the venue the next day to get our money.
There were lots of long faces and I went up to the manager who was wearing black, sitting with other people also wearing black, all staring into their coffees (black).
“Hi,” I said cheerfully, as you do when you have to ask people for money they owe you.
“Hello,” he said in a black way.
“I just came to get my money. It went pretty well last night. Thanks a lot, man.”
He got up and shuffled over to the bar. “It’s awful, isn’t it?”
“What’s that then?” I asked chipperly.
He shot me a polite look of understated shame.
“Kurt? You heard, right?”
“Oh. Right. Yeah. Terrible.”
I kind of shook my head in concern, but the moment was gone and to join the mood would be too strained, so I wiped the smile off my face and took the money.
Two decades of stupid.
June 8th, 2006 at 7:44 am
I fel t the same about Cobain. Still do, he was over-rated .
So send me the book, I’ll read it.
June 19 is Emancipation Day here in the States- it’s the day Lincoln signed the Emancipation proclamation. They call it ‘Juneteenth’ down here in Dallas.
Wish I were involved in your Juneteenth, but I guess someone’s gotta be in teh audience;)
June 8th, 2006 at 7:45 am
By the way, the song’s nice so far. Fun guitar break, and Glam Grunge is a good name for it- Bowie/Ronson meet Soundgarden.