Let Us Now Praise Dave Q

Strangely enough I started writing a story where one of the characters is based on Dave Q, kind of. I don't really think I have captured the essence of Q yet, my writing is kind of disappointing.

If I had the time, I'd compile all his posts and print them out. ULTIMATE bathroom read. (I can't pay a higher compliment.)

dave is so right re. flipper and the crue it isnt even funny

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-- tarden (scrape10...), July 7th, 2001.

-- dave q, March 2nd, 2003

Have you ever been to Bristol, Dave?

1. They encourage people to use the word 'anal', but not in a 'good' way. Use of the word 'anal' contributes to blind acceptance of bogus Freudian mythology that ppl seem to think is more valid than astrology for some reason.
2. They usually lack annotation. Come on, I want to see ppl 'show their work' as yr math teacher used to say!
3. One always forgets the killer list addition until 20 minutes after they've done it, then gets anxious about having misrepresented themselves.
4. Following on from 3, heavy pot users seem to have more difficulty with this than most.
5. Umm, nothing! List away! (btw I hate threads that criticise thread ideas. No like, no read. Oh wait I just did, shit)
dave q (scrape10...), March 29th, 2003 9:55 AM

Mark - everyone knows about F Mac's encounter-group on wheels (fuck that, private jets),but their weird dynamics were already at high-tension levels way before the Buckingham/Nicks era - it was drugs and mental illness that featured in the Green/Spencer era, and perhaps a couple of Californian flower children were a cakewalk in comparison. I think a more interesting band to put to this kind of scrutiny would be Husker Du - I don't think the full story has ever come out. Also, do you think W. Marsalis imagines himself Completing the Arc of ALL OF JAZZ?

Tracer - there are quite a few examples from the 60s of attempts to forge new band models - think Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead (bohemian/preppie/academic/lowlife - later to contain both a married couple and a drummer who quit due to his manager/father embezzling from his own son's band),MC5, Sly & the Family Stone, etc. (In light of the 'Dictator' category, the prevalence of army brats (Buffalo Springfield, Doors)in the peace-n- love era is interesting. Steven Stills and Jim Morrison were both notorious for maintaining control through unpredictability, violence, and limitless capacities for mental and physical cruelty, and an Alpha Male sense of supremacy, qualities definitely not fashionable in the pre-Altamont daze - odd that their music remains among the most 'of its time' of these bands[I don't want to use the 'dated' epithet] - and like every bully, they both had weedy, introspective nerds as sidekicks/mascots. (Morrison always struck me as the school bully who would pants the classroom poet in front of all the girls when there were crowds around, but would corner the guy alone later with "I...um...wrote a song...it's about my feelings and stuff...". Stills, the jock who made your life a misery, until you see him 20 years later and he's a fat guy with a nowhere job and a wife who cheats on him and you have a beer with him, gloating inside at his endless complaints about the manager of the furniture retailer that employs him.)

Another 'power behind the throne' band? How about the Byrds?
-- tarden (scrape100@hotma....), June 16th, 2001.

I liked that Tom Hanks one
-- dave q (scrape10...), April 18th, 2003. (later)

Dunno, I'd be suspicious if a train conductor insisted I didn't need any baggage. Like, where are we going, Belsen?
-- dave q (scrape10...), July 24th, 2001.

Devo, for updating that N'awlins groove. (Don't believe me? Where d'ya think 'Working in a Coal Mine' came from?) For being the missing link between the Ventures and Slipknot. For being known as an electro- synth-whatevah noowave unit but still having an incredibly great drummer. For "Uncontrollable Urge", "Gut Feeling", "Smart Patrol", "Snowball", "Girl U Want", "Through Being Cool", "Beautiful World", "Speed Racer", "Peek-a-Boo", "Be Stiff", "Turnaround", and every cover version they ever did. For being a noisier, trashier, funnier and more American version of Roxy Music.

Kraftwerk = hippies. I can see them driving their VW van through Morocco, everything. Their beautiful tunes ("Radioactivity") were beautiful but they didn't have any kick-ass tunes and are thus responsible for trance music and all those besieged chrome-domes screaming about how there's still NOIZE assaulting their poor calibrated eardrums, get rid of it now, it's all the fault of the rockist conspiracy etc etc etc. Actually, fuck Kraftwerk and everybody who followed them. (I still like "Radioactivity" though, but I think somebody should do a really shitty version of it)

-- dave q (scrape10...), January 21st, 2002 8:00 PM.

PRIMAL SCREAM - Give Up But Don't Give Out *****

What's it called when you 'sample' stuff, except actually 'play' it? Let's invent a new word! 'Recordcollected'! By nature of what they 'recordcollect' here 'Give Up' is the crucible of TRUE FANS who may be admitted into the inner sanctum of the mystery of the PS constellation of reference points. By exposing it to the light and thus risking evaporation they instead justify their way of making records by making it seem like the LISTENER is a conundrum, ie if somebody doesn't 'like' them then that means they don't like their 'record collection'. But who but a really sad person would dislike somebody on that basis? That's the question PS are asking and they drop the first and last hint with the genius intro to "Jailbait" (y'know, the two drum intros), although burying the stellar "Struttin'" near the end is also a nice touch, if a bit cruel and malicious, but since when has that ever bothered me? A masterpiece.
-- dave q (scrape10...), July 16th, 2003.

'vocals should be louder' = 'i should stick to acoustic singer-songwriters'!! They are THE STROKES. See the 'S' on the end? Like it's a band, there's five of them and the voice in a band is another 'instrument'. The great thing about studios is you can mix them anyway you want! It's 'The Strokes', not 'Julian Casablancas Recites Poems in Tribute to Elliot Smith'!! I've spent so much time defending this record that I'm almost dreading actually hearing it, but these criticisms are just WEIRD! Like yer grandmother saying "b-b-but [asthmatic whine] I can't make out what he's s-s-saying!!!"
-- dave q (scrape10...), October 30th, 2003.

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See, they were 'tight' w/ the producer, so I assume they had some say in how it sounded. So to say 'I like the Strokes but not the production' makes no sense whatever! The production IS the band! Like saying, "Honey you're beautiful but you really need a fuckin' facelift!"
-- dave q (scrape10...), October 30th, 2003.

Shit, I didn't actually answer the question did I. Sorry
-- dave q (scrape10...), July 25th, 2002 9:00 PM.

If something is owned by the type of person who goes mental about fingerprints on a jewel case then it is usually coffee-table. Vinyl is one thing, that's 'collectors', but jewel-cases, there's something seriously anal going on. dave q, December 14th, 2003.

(I would like to take this opportunity to recommend that 'back slapping' henceforth always be replaced by 'back assessment'.)

Defending the As-Yet-Undefended: The Manhattan Transfer

That album's "Java Jive" did for caffeine what VU did for heroin, therefore MT invented DC hardcore

― dave q, Friday, July 11, 2003 3:13 AM (11 years ago)

This can't be Dave, can it? Heavily edited?

http://www.cxmagazine.com/sscxwc-single-speed-portland-dave-queen

Really strongly doubt it.

If that is Dave then well done for getting in shape!