First of all -- thank you, thank you! Taking all the hours and minutes of pure listening pleasure you have provided me and adding them together would produce a truly staggering number -- very probably whole months of my life have been devoted to listening to your sonic arrangements.
They couldn't have been better spent.
There are, as you could probably guess, a thousand and two questions I could ask, but I'll try to keep to areas of general interest rather than geekish fanboy trivia.
TMBG's "sound" (for lack of a better word) has evolved quite a bit since the early days, but in a way that is thematically consistent -- i.e., it is a true evolution rather than some kind of radical re-invention of intent.
Taking the various solo and side projects into account (Mono Puff, State Songs, etc.), it's obvious that both of you Johns have other ideas and musical interests that don't seem to find their way into the core TMBG repertoire...
How is it then that you are able to maintain this consistent evolution of TMBG "sound" and philosophy? Is it a conscious effort, or is the very act of John and John getting together to make music what defines TMBG? Do you limit yourselves at all in what you produce as TMBG as opposed to when you create music separately? (I'm guessing not. ^_^ )
sorry...but I forgot to mention the OTHER scary part: my mother was recently telling me about a woman she works with who had met a guy online. she helped him move to the States from Australia, let him live with her, bought a car with him in his name, took out a $10,000 loan to help him start a business, came home from work one day and found him GONE. No car, none of the really expensive tools he bought to run his business...nothing. Plus she found recent email on her machine from another woman in Canada telling the crud-ball she couldn't wait for him to show up so they could meet ftf! Needless to say, she alerted the other woman, but she's still out about $30,000 and an emotional wreck.
Precisely *because* there are non of the physical clues of meeting people ftf. I mean, yes, it allows for my assessments of people to be based purely upon their attitudes and personality...but there are times when those things are not enough or are misleading. I'm 23 years old, and for awhile last summer, I found myself in a fairly close friendship on IRC with a person that I discovered was only 14. There wasn't anything untoward going on -- we were just friends -- but it still came as quite a shock. I'm still good friends with this person, and I probably wouldn't be if we'd met elsewhere than online, BUT...I'm sure that if this person's parents found out that a 23 year-old computer geek had ANY sort of relationship with their 14 year-old they would be far from pleased (with none of our protestations of innocence doing any good) -- see the article at Netslaves about online child-molestation...*shudder*. There's a *reason* that we react certain ways to certain people when we meet them ftf -- automatically labelling someone as a kid, for instance -- and many times they're perfectly good reasons. My friend might technically be better off hanging out with persons of the same age group, rather than in predominantly adult trafficked IRC channels. I dunno. Like I said, the connotations are scary.
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First of all -- thank you, thank you! Taking all the hours and minutes of pure listening pleasure you have provided me and adding them together would produce a truly staggering number -- very probably whole months of my life have been devoted to listening to your sonic arrangements.
They couldn't have been better spent.
There are, as you could probably guess, a thousand and two questions I could ask, but I'll try to keep to areas of general interest rather than geekish fanboy trivia.
TMBG's "sound" (for lack of a better word) has evolved quite a bit since the early days, but in a way that is thematically consistent -- i.e., it is a true evolution rather than some kind of radical re-invention of intent.
Taking the various solo and side projects into account (Mono Puff, State Songs, etc.), it's obvious that both of you Johns have other ideas and musical interests that don't seem to find their way into the core TMBG repertoire...
How is it then that you are able to maintain this consistent evolution of TMBG "sound" and philosophy? Is it a conscious effort, or is the very act of John and John getting together to make music what defines TMBG? Do you limit yourselves at all in what you produce as TMBG as opposed to when you create music separately? (I'm guessing not. ^_^ )
Thanks guys! Keep up the good work!
-revchango
sorry...but I forgot to mention the OTHER scary part: my mother was recently telling me about a woman she works with who had met a guy online. she helped him move to the States from Australia, let him live with her, bought a car with him in his name, took out a $10,000 loan to help him start a business, came home from work one day and found him GONE. No car, none of the really expensive tools he bought to run his business...nothing. Plus she found recent email on her machine from another woman in Canada telling the crud-ball she couldn't wait for him to show up so they could meet ftf! Needless to say, she alerted the other woman, but she's still out about $30,000 and an emotional wreck.
Precisely *because* there are non of the physical clues of meeting people ftf. I mean, yes, it allows for my assessments of people to be based purely upon their attitudes and personality...but there are times when those things are not enough or are misleading. I'm 23 years old, and for awhile last summer, I found myself in a fairly close friendship on IRC with a person that I discovered was only 14. There wasn't anything untoward going on -- we were just friends -- but it still came as quite a shock. I'm still good friends with this person, and I probably wouldn't be if we'd met elsewhere than online, BUT...I'm sure that if this person's parents found out that a 23 year-old computer geek had ANY sort of relationship with their 14 year-old they would be far from pleased (with none of our protestations of innocence doing any good) -- see the article at Netslaves about online child-molestation...*shudder*. There's a *reason* that we react certain ways to certain people when we meet them ftf -- automatically labelling someone as a kid, for instance -- and many times they're perfectly good reasons. My friend might technically be better off hanging out with persons of the same age group, rather than in predominantly adult trafficked IRC channels. I dunno. Like I said, the connotations are scary.