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Other People’s Sweat and Beer Soaked Shoes: What I Really Miss About Live Music
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For Live Music Heals, KEXP s Dusty Henry shares some reflections on what live music means to him. Tune in on Feb. 18th as KEXP DJs listeners share their own stories on-air throughout the day.
I miss other people’s sweat. The sticky, putrid stank of your t-shirt soaked and clinging to your skin. Elbows jabbing in the side of your torso while you stretch your neck to try to get a clear view – a view that only lasts a moment before bobbing heads interrupt and suddenly you’re tumbling in the opposite direction with the swarm of other bodies. Shoes sticking to the beer-soaked floors. A stranger picking you up, giving a quick pat on the back and a pantomimed “you good?” before you both smile and return to the moment. And, of course, the swell of noise blaring through the PA speakers – the cacophonous ritual that brought us all here in the
London’s Still Calling: Modern Artists Carrying On The Mission of The Clash
Forty years after
The Clash released
London Calling and we’re still lamenting the same fears and anxieties. The onus was never on just The Clash to solve the world’s problems, but progress moves slower than the fiery riffs of “Clampdown.”
But
London Calling was not inconsequential. Beyond just a musical milestone, the record and the band themselves were a match lighting the fuse. They blew up preconceptions of punk, how to talk about politics in music, and how to use your guitars to start the revolution. Their message opposed racism and fear and emphasized unity and inclusion. Evergreen themes that are still being carried on by artists today, sometimes with guitars but also with MPCs, synthesizers, rhymes, and shouts.