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.
ALAN BISHOPBut the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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Sound is inspiring and I can be quite obssessive with certain sounds.
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I love rearranging words and destroying language and the established forms of art and music/challenging the reasoning of others.
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The lyrics are not an important thing to me. In fact, it can be a distraction.
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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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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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There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.
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I hear things my own way and I present them.
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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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They’re not into dicing and slicing everything up.
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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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Like most of the popular songs are today in the English language that I hear – then it would be much more of a turnoff then if it would allow me to interpret it.
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In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don’t think about music.
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But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
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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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Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.
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