Well, "scene" often has two definitions... a positive and negative one.
Positive: community of friends who may or may not be musicians who
share a taste for the same general kind of music and want to help expose
it to other folks, and develop it with a sense of identity.
Negative: a group of folks who just can't graduate from the high school
"clique" mentality, who remain content following around and hanging
around "cool" people, forcing themselves to like/hate certain things and
dress a certain way only because their inference of "cool" people
dictating it.
That said, most scenes contain elements of both the positive and negative
definitions.... I don't believe there are 100% positive scenes and
100% negative scenes..(in the same way I don't think each can be
100% heterosexual or 100% homosexual.)...
I don't think the original poster was out of line at all in lamenting
the lack of a "scene"... assuming he (or was it she?) meant "scene"
as in "just fucking ANYBODY in the area who's as passionate about this
type of music as I am, so I can learn more about it, and be exposed to it
more.."
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Brian MacDonald <brianm@kuci.org>
KUCI 88.9 fM in Irvine, CA -- Orange County
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