Count Machuki wrote:Bent Fabric wrote:Oh, yes - and how frustrating to be an artist in the scenario you describe. You go through all kinds of shit and have all of these peak experiences and for what? So that 75% of your audience can decide that some ancient passing phase was "the real you", or - at the very least - "the only you that mattered".
Jonathan Richman's Complaint
it's in the DSM
I've always secretly believed that some "nothing to see here, folks" one hit wonder type (Smashmouth, Tommy Tutone, the Romantics, Johnny Rivers, Rick Dees, etc.) was writhing in existential agony, cranking out the hit at state fairs summer after summer while privately and anonymously developing all sorts of different "musics" (deeply personal and forward thinking epochal miracles) that the public would - sadly - never know about.