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Charles Miller (exceeding all audience expectations)
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Date Posted: Tue July 21, 2009 03:57:13
You know, I've always had pretty far-ranging tastes — certainly in music, for the sake of this discussion, but in other areas, as well. I have a collection of eclectic music that I like to think is "well rounded" and not leaning in any particular direction. My ear is wide open all the time, my mind is so open I think I lost the lid to it, so I will CONSIDER virtually any new music. I'll give anything a chance, and I even try to understand new music, which is like inviting the damned devil into your house, right?
I gravitate to the odd birds, I don't listen to the foaming pop, the common garbage. Which explains my deep admiration for Buddy Holly and Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran and Carl Perkins and all those other cats who were really INVENTING ROCK & ROLL. while everyone else was gushing and blushing and screaming about some HOOD ORNAMENT PERFORMER such as Elvis (or Michael Jackson).
Make no mistake, I bow to Elvis of the 50s and 60s.
But I have realized that my musical tastes are so weird and screwed up because I'm HALF-BRITISH... Seriously. My mother's people are straight out of Shaw in County Lancashire. My father was straight out of the Piney Woods of East Texas.
We grew up with cowboy hats and guns, but we said "ta ta," and "tootle-loo" and we called our grandmother "The Duck" (and she was an odd bird, too). So there was this cultural melding that resulted in a rather large family of massive, redneck, hellraising brutes who also had the British penchant for culture and creativity. And the perverse wandering eye, oh-so-British. Yah, we've had our family scandals, the ENGLISH sort of scandals, the scandals that roll like thunder through generations of the family.
Don't ask, don't tell.
But, apparently, THAT'S what has colored my musical tastes over the years... This thick, heinous, dripping, burgeoning BRITISH PALL over my entire pathetic life. sniff
God save the queen. Y'all
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