From the author:
"Old?? Old?? Ok, so I'm old, but I'll be damned if I miss the Velvet Underground! I miss Mott the Hoople. As for my article, I stand by all of it, except the parts I didn't mean, and the parts where I knew I didn't have a leg to stand on, and the parts where, looking back on them now, I might have been a little meaner than I needed to be. Look. I've loved a lot of rock, punk, post-punk--whatever the fuck you want to call them--bands in my time, and not one of them has come from DC. All I was trying to do in my article was take an irreverent look at the reasons why. Maybe it's all the politics. Or all the rich kids. Or maybe it has something to do with the influence of Fugazi who, whatever else you want to say about them, are hardly what I'd call a chuckle a minute. More like a chuckle a century. If you don't like your rock with chuckles, that's your prerogative. Even a frivolous old man like me has to admit to liking a few totally humorless bands. (And if one more person, Jem fucking Cohen included, tells me Instrument is "funny," I'm gonna blow a gasket. It's not funny. It's arty. So arty it makes me wanna puke.) But I'm wandering. Must be the Alzheimers. Or the crack. Cheers, Mike
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