This has been such a horrible week for Vancouver. I am grateful to my friend in Ontario who posted a video on Facebook of local Vancouver musician Doug Bennett performing in the early 80s with his band Doug and The Slugs. Doug died way too young in 2004 at the age of 52. I used to live in the same apartment buiding as him in downtown Vancouver and would pass him in the entrance way as we came and went, always nodding a polite hello.
The videos are cheesey but the music is great. Doug had one of those distinctive voices that you would recognise every time he came on the radio.
Maybe the videos were cheesey, but they were back then. MTV would have gone nowhere if the videos were "arte." Music was meant to be fun!
ReplyDeleteTrue Matt. I'm just glad that we get to see/hear/listen to our favourites. That's one thing I'm grateful to modern technology for, whatever we want to access is right there.
ReplyDeleteAlthough there is a downside to that :( All the crap is preserved as well!
Yeah, but we can ignore the crap!
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