bongo wrote:i keep googling stuff like "indie folk live boat houseboat pond"
i just type random hoot terminology into the youtube search bar and sometimes you come across some entirely weirder non-hoot stuff that makes you take a break from the computer
I know how to do it now. There are nearly thirteen million hootbros in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own Sessions. They have to be given their due.
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa american nostalgia love it suburban living civilized families this could be my life
i know we've talked about this tangentially but i was just thinking (in trying to frame a response to Bartatuas inquiry about the essential nature of Sessions) about how hoot is almost actually predicated on the existence of youtube/vimeo
like, Sessions are these produced/often high def staged recordings of bands that, in another era, would just be playing at the local jam band friendly college bar that does live music every night maybe very rarely getting filmed with a camcorder or something and largely existing just as a Local Band in a sort of vacuum. yet because of the performative/produced nature of Sessions and youtube aggregation/autoplay/keyword functionality they exist for us in a very different way. as sort of like, weird folksy theater troupes staging bucolic novelties along with their earnest stompings and pluckings
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa american nostalgia love it suburban living civilized families this could be my life
bongo wrote:i know we've talked about this tangentially but i was just thinking (in trying to frame a response to Bartatuas inquiry about the essential nature of Sessions) about how hoot is almost actually predicated on the existence of youtube/vimeo
like, Sessions are these produced/often high def staged recordings of bands that, in another era, would just be playing at the local jam band friendly college bar that does live music every night maybe very rarely getting filmed with a camcorder or something and largely existing just as a Local Band in a sort of vacuum. yet because of the performative/produced nature of Sessions and youtube aggregation/autoplay/keyword functionality they exist for us in a very different way. as sort of like, weird folksy theater troupes staging bucolic novelties along with their earnest stompings and pluckings
not sure i should be allowed to make posts at the tale end of a work weeek
yeaaaaaaaaaaaa american nostalgia love it suburban living civilized families this could be my life
i suppose the difference with a session is that you can be a bit more artistic in the vision/recording/execution, where jamming in a coffee shop or down in the barn or whatever was just sort of a special moment where people came together. like a you-just-had-to-be-there moment. in some ways maybe the act of filming and editing those moments cheapens or dilutes the whole experience.
like if my friend invited me down to the farm or whatever and i happened to see the guys from Birds of Bellwoods play an Idioteque cover, that would be a memory i would cherish for a very long time. and it would be special to me because it happened organically.
but some of these sessions seem really artificial and lack that sort of organic quality that some of the others have and that is possibly the appeal as well. like a highly edited cut cut cut session versus a take away show where mac demarco is walking through a park in france singing and the whole thing is shot in a single take.