Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music.
ALAN BISHOPI love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me.
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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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If I must live on the same planet as Mr and Mrs out of touch, I will do whatever I can to jolt their zombie-ass skulls from the upside-down veal market they hang from.
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If you’re somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you’re pretty much going to know what’s going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.
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From the expressive capabilities of the vocalizing or of the sound itself, which allows me to create my own meaning for it, which elevates it into a higher piece of work for me.
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I love what I do so I find ways to keep doing what I love. Music is certainly not all that interests me.
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I don’t speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don’t even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places.
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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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Old is unwanted. You don’t find Thais going to the thrift store. They want new clothes. They want the newest cell phone.
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If I knew the language enough to know it was a horrible love song with stupid lyrics.
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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.
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Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don’t think about music.
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I’ve had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we’re truly after.
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