I forget how hard and complicated being in a band can be, especially in the embryonic stages, and every project I've ever done has been stillborn or aborted. I don't know what this is, and maybe it's too early to tell, the last few times have been with relative strangers so it was easier to bow out early. They've got other projects, this is my only one and I want it to be something I love, I wonder if this is selfish sometimes, but I can't play what I can't believe in.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
coming separate
I forget how hard and complicated being in a band can be, especially in the embryonic stages, and every project I've ever done has been stillborn or aborted. I don't know what this is, and maybe it's too early to tell, the last few times have been with relative strangers so it was easier to bow out early. They've got other projects, this is my only one and I want it to be something I love, I wonder if this is selfish sometimes, but I can't play what I can't believe in.
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ReplyDeleteAline says, You still live in the Cleveland of the mind. Probably never would’ve left Cleveland if it wasn’t for the search for a girl I could talk to.
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What was your life like in Cleveland?
CRUMB
We lived on the edge of a black neighborhood, near Euclid and 105th Street, which was a strip of nightclubs and shoeshine parlors and barbershops and bars. There was a lot of music and black nightclubs, and there was a lot of prostitution on the strip there.
INTERVIEWER
Were you drawing those things around you?
CRUMB
I actually didn’t do that naturally; I was too shy to go out and draw on the streets, but I met this young woman who was my age named Liz Johnston, and she would take her sketchbook around and just draw in public, and she encouraged me to do it and to go with her—Come on, let’s go out and draw from life—and so I started doing that with her, and I liked it.
sounds more like maturity than just aging (sadly all too often not the same)
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