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.
ALAN BISHOPBut the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don’t think about music.
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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.
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Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.
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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 like traditional music. I listen to a lot of it. There is no particular reason to present these recordings.
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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
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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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They’re not concerned with it. They don’t take their musical legacy seriously.
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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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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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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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Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.
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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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