http://www.mtvhive.com/2013/01/16/the-only-black-guy-at-the-indie-rock-show/

You guys are probably going to rip this dude to shreds lol. It kinda reeks of "ooh look at me - whoa is me I'm so different"

but still an interesting *essay imho



//..........There was no individual precedent for my love of alternative and punk culture. My family and neighborhood friends all exclusively listened to contemporary rap and R&B, the former not truly capturing my imagination until a year later (Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” was the rap equivalent of “Smells Like Teen Spirit” in terms of opening my eyes to a new world). R&B still doesn’t appeal to me. There’s a sense of defiance that comes with liking something you’re not “supposed” to like; in a way, I knew I was sabotaging the uniform order among black kids my age. But mostly, it felt like something I could claim for my own, a part of American culture that wasn’t handed down to me or illustrated in history books. It wasn’t my parents’ music. It was something that was happening right now, and regardless of the color lines placed between it and me, it was something that I was a part of. //

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"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

people are still on THIS shit?

where it wasnt a big deal to see mad black ppl @ all kinds of off the wall ass shows

>where it wasnt a big deal to see mad black ppl @ all kinds of
>off the wall ass shows
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>

Well with the 930 club being right down the street that makes sense

...at the Meshuggah show this past May at House of Blues Chicago. He got there early and was wearing a sharp brown suit and black overcoat, Malcolm X eyeglasses, and a fedora, and he sat down at the bar and pulled out what looked like a copy of Das Kapital or some other revolutionary text, and read until show time.

I've met plenty of black metalheads, but they usually look like, you know, metalheads. I really wish I knew this guy's story.

>...at the Meshuggah show this past May at House of Blues
>Chicago. He got there early and was wearing a sharp brown suit
>and black overcoat, Malcolm X eyeglasses, and a fedora, and he
>sat down at the bar and pulled out what looked like a copy of
>Das Kapital or some other revolutionary text, and read until
>show time.
>
>I've met plenty of black metalheads, but they usually look
>like, you know, metalheads. I really wish I knew this guy's
>story.

Yes I do keep count.

at the Bear in Heaven show I went to a couple weeks ago.

I dunno, I see plenty of black folk at indie rock shows (usually black women tho). Though I've been leaning more towards techno/house lately, it just doesn't seem out of the ordinary to see people of color at any show, really. Especially with indie artists doing R&B and R&B singers singing over EDM.

What about latinos? They been fucking with indie rock without having some identity crisis.

I mean Frankie Crocker, the Belleville Three outta Detroit (young black girls in the D was pop locking to Italo Disco), third-stream jazz artists like Mingus, and any young black kid that heard Afrikaa Bambaataa spin is proof enough that African Americans BEEN into some other shit, it's really not special.

see black people all the time

(I'm black btw)

If he turns around and looks behind him things are changing. I had such a hard time with this right around middle school in the 90's when I couldn't deny my affinity for OTHER music. It's a tough space to be in, but once you own it, it's fuckin amazing cause you are truly blessed to be able to connect with so many different kinds of sounds and genres. I've gotten to a point now where I could care less about the black and white of it. I jsut want the vibes man. I do try and encourage ANYONE whether they are black or otherwise to not be afraid to trust what they are feeling if something appeals to them. THey may be doing themselves a MASSIVE disservice otherwise.

With youtube, spotify, ect and all of the festivals and shit now where everything is mashed up......this kind of shit really isn;t an issue anymore. I'm almost a little jealous of young kids now cause of their access and exposure to shit. I really had to go in for what I wanted. But it gave me a different appreciation and exclusiveness (which hipsters have exploited....."exclusive" doesn't mean what it used to mean.

I went to middle and high school in the '90s, a time in which a story like this would make perfect sense. But now? This is a fuckin joke.

the awkwardness phase passed loooonng ago

damn i just realized i ONLY go to electronic and indie rock shows. last rapper i paid to see was Planet Asia in 06. but i digress...

this was a boring read and like someone else said...way too late.

http://chriswind.bandcamp.com/album/color-wind-the-melodic-punk-adventures-of-chris-wind

"The only black guy at The Roots show."

Discuss.

even if it's metal.

I will say one of the oddest experiences I had was Pearl Jam a few years ago at MSG. I couldn't even find an asian person there...shit was like a universal meeting of the Aryan race.

They were an all-Black heavy metal band from the '70s.
And, no, I'm not talkin about Richard Pryor's tv band.

Death=A dope, black proto-punk band from the 70's, not to be confused with the death metal legends...

Black Death=A black cheese-metal (not a diss!) band who dropped an album in the mid-80's. I've only heard some songs on comps but it is pretty cool stuff in the early Priest or Mercyful Fate way...

EDIT:Apparently, Black Death actually formed in 77. Whatever, it's an 80's band IMO...

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But no, they're not who I was referring to.
btw, cool name. "Afkap of Darkness".

but yeah,... cheesy.
Atleast they did it without any cry-baby whiny-ness entitlement (unlike today's "AfroPunk-oriented youth).