A Song About Being A Music Geek
As discussed by two music geeks
Cris Cohen: It also brings me around to the song, “That Kind of Guy”…
Peter Holsapple: [laughs] I knew it was coming.
Cris Cohen: Which, as a music geek, I homed in on. First of all, I love the line that it says, “I got all that boxed up remaindered reminders of what was once to be.” First of all, I never want anyone to explain their lyrics, but I'm curious how that one came about. How much is it like it just pops into your head from the muse and how much of it is, “I'm trying to find word combinations that really express all I'm trying to say here?”
Peter Holsapple: So that line in particular, I guess, came from looking at online ads. There was a company that used to sell vinyl overstock, I guess you would have to call it. I bought this great two-record set called Songs The Bonzo Dog Band Taught Us. It's all the original versions of things like “Ali Baba's Camel” and stuff that the Bonzo Dog Band had covered over the years. It's really sensational.
I was looking at the catalog and seeing all of this stuff. And it was box sets of Otis Redding singles on CD and box sets of Ken Burns Jazz DVDs.
And I was thinking, I've been on both sides of that kind of guy music counter. I've been the guy selling the records. I've been the guy buying the records. So, I know what it takes to be that kind of guy, because I am that kind of guy. I try not to be so much anymore.
I have a few ground rules. I really don't want to pay more than $40 for a vinyl record, especially because I could probably go someplace and get $22 records for that price. And they'd be a little scratchy, but I'd have more records to listen to. I also don't like to buy something and keep it sealed, because I think that the music doesn't get a chance to escape a sealed record cover. And isn't it basically that you want to listen to the record? So I have a few tenets like that. And I don't go buying as much.