JD wrote:24db wrote:JD wrote:
This is a bit of a problem here as I think the regular posters are way too close to TDs music as die hard fans to look at things from other perspectives.
I've always found bad reviews of TD are met here with the kind of reaction you'd expect if they had been insulted personally. I see it also when people say they like an album and its followed by a series of replies saying how glad they are the other person likes it, I think some fans take this music as thier own
Its not surprising though when Edgar describes his audience as "intelligent" and critics as "Dancing Grizzlies" or other wonderful things like "you are what you hear" , in which case I daren't look in the mirror when Inferno is playing
I've read some of Stumps book and it isnt that flattering, but it really cant have sold that many copies anyway.
I'm looking forward to Edgars book, but I'm also a little anxious about how biased it may be.
Good points JD
Edgar's book biased? yep...it'll from
his point of you. If you wrote it , it would be biased the same way if I wrote one...fact of life. However it should make for interesting reading...and more importantly for me, we'll get to read something new about our favourite band.
Yes absolutely but I hope it wont be biased in an untrutheful way regarding what past members contributed etc not that we would ever really know !
I think that's the point JD, up until now we've had next to nothing to go on. Bar Chris Franke is a nice bloke....let's believe 'everything he's ever said' or Edgar 'He's a bit of lad, and know's how to sell Coals to Newcastle' therefore everything he's ever said is utter rubbish and made up. Neither of these statments is 100% true and the more we have, the more we can decide what 'our TD history is'...I say
our, because we all shape what we think we know round 'our version'...I'm aware I do it all the time. However (for me) a book (any book) should tell me something I didn't know, Edgar's book I'm pretty sure will do this.
As a collector of TD memorabilia (or junk as it's sometimes called), I've noticed over the last month or two that a small piece of information can change your whole idea about TD, for me that's exciting, in the same way that chatting to other fans in person is; you always learn something new, sometimes you find your opinions are totally wrong and you have to change them and from time to time something you thought was common knowledge shocks the other person, out of a particular comfort zone. If a small snippet can do this...what can a book do?