Re: [bomp] led astray...

[John Leonard <john.leonard19@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did any good music ever come out of there? The only things I can think 
of are Smashmouth and STP.

On Friday, September 3, 2004, at 09:11 AM, ItsBoss9@aol.com wrote:

>
> ...I DID TRY PRETTY HARD
> TO MAKE A GO OF THINGS IN SAN DIEGO BUT....
>
> Yeh, somehow I got caught up in the belief that it was a swingin' 
> place, I
> mean, some good bands came out of there during the early '80s and UGLY 
> THINGS is
> brilliant but...  well, when you've lived in a real city, and then move 
> to
> this place where its like 85% right wing facists everywhere you go, and 
> then a
> gaggle of frustrated "artists" who are so beaten down by local Repubican
> attitudes, the place is really impossible to work creatively from.  
> That frustration
> turns the artists into vindictive assholes... that's why the best 
> people who
> grew up there always split.  God, did I hate the Pink Panther and shit 
> like
> that!
>
> I moved because L.A. was pretty stinko during the late '80s, but guess 
> what?
> It rebounded within a year or so, after the whole Guns 'n' Roses thing 
> went
> away...(I was beginning to think Metal would never let go of its 
> "stranglehold"
> on town...)  There's been tons of brilliant stuff out of L.A. since Big 
> Sandy
> & the Fly-Rite Trio got the ball rolling again at Blue Saloon in 1990,
> followed by the whole Exoticon thing, the Silver Lake stuff and tons of 
> alternatives
> to the Valley metalhead take-over of the '80s.  They're still here 
> (mostly
> around the Rainbow), but the options in L.A. outweigh the bullshit now.
>
> It's very hard for someone who lives outside of San Diego to understand 
> what
> the social problems are once you get there.  All you see is nice 
> beaches and
> some music and you think "hmm, this is nice" but once you get there, 
> it's like,
> a huge, overcrowded place with a small-town redneck mentality... 
> without the
> benefits of a major city.  People on the scene went to a total of 5 High
> Schools, and everyone "on the scene" still acts like they are still in 
> High
> School....that's how they identify with each other ("oh, did you go to 
> South" or
> whatever).  It was funny when I got a post from you and you referred to 
> it as
> "Dirt Town" because that was the first thing everyone said to each 
> other in San
> Diego... "what's the dirt?"  In a major city, you have lots of other 
> things to
> foucus on, but in a boring place like San Diego, they've got nothing 
> better to
> do than look for crap on each other.
>
> My family being from New York, and me growing up in L.A., and 
> especially with
> the Hollywood environment of the past during my childhood and teens (I
> shunned High School events), it made absolutely no sense for me to be 
> in a place
> like San Diego that treats liberals as outsiders to be dismissed out of 
> hand.
> Plus, the diversions there were extremely limited, from my previous life
> experience.
>
> Also, a big problem with San Diego, if someone is an achiever, on a
> Hollywood/New York media center level, people in San Diego seem to 
> really resent that,
> because it's this really provincial town that hates the media 
> centers... just
> like San Francisco, but without the clubs, music scene or intelligent
> perception of social issues that San Francisco has... just provincial
> inferiority/superiority complexes everywhere.  San Francisco is still a 
> fun place to live,
> though, with tons of cool things to do.  With your roots in Boston, 
> again, this
> is a high-profile, international city with a significant history that 
> matters
> in the world... like New York, Hollywood, San Francisco... San Diego 
> will never
> have this kind of significance... in fact, it wasn't that much 
> different from
> Omaha, Nebraska (I lived there for 2 years), except for the fact that 
> San
> Diego had the Pacific Ocean... but the people were just as stupid as 
> Omaha
> (outside of the UGLY THINGS staff, of course, with Mike Stax being one 
> of my very
> best friends...and not a part of any of these problems, as he is from 
> England).
>
> Lisa, Julie... these people were kuks.  Lisa married a doctor (of 
> course) in
> Philly (not quite the midwest, but, you know, slipped into
> Stepford-wife-ism... seemingly a lifetime goal) and Julie ended up 
> going out with this total
> racist for a long time.... totally unacceptable, sub-human shit.  Twice 
> (1978 and
> 1986) I found out that a girl I was dating hated blacks or something, 
> and both
> times, they were dumped immediately.  So that's what I mean, can't 
> stand that
> San Diego environment where racism is acceptable.  Hell, my pop grew up 
> in
> Harlem and was off the boat from Italy durng the '20s.
>
> Domenic Priore
>
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