| I used to be fairly
well obsessed with a local band (“local” meaning, at the
time, Claremont, California circa 1991) called Autry O’Day.
They played “rock and roll,” by which they meant an admixture
of ZZ Top, the Beatles (but only the going-maudlin Beatles of Let
It Be), and every early eighties hard rock band that ever existed.
They were pretty awful, of course, but that wasn’t what made
them obsession-worthy. It was the way their founding member thought
of his band: how he conceived their position in the history of rock
music, how he contextualized them within the rock “scene”
as he then perceived it, and how he went about conveying these ideas
to the general public. |
