tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-394922777607126515.post8267794555797584688..comments2023-04-02T06:25:24.026-04:00Comments on Trapper Jenn MD: What's Romance: Wild Flag and Lee Ranaldo at the Bell House, Brooklyn, NY 10/15/11jennthebennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12761701215748531904noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-394922777607126515.post-22248571251832626612011-10-29T20:18:39.751-04:002011-10-29T20:18:39.751-04:00Thank you, much, for the account.I really like Bla...Thank you, much, for the account.<br><br>I really like Black Tiles as set opener. Including with the SY announcement as context.<br><br>Of all the meta songs (questions of the audience/band relation as romance, or as especially intense (blood) romance, or as friendship, or as artistic/creative partnership, or as a battle, or as a dance, or as a lie), it's the one that cuts through most sharply.<br><br>Audience reception theory: readings can be dominant, or negotiated, or oppositional. Generally, we're doing negotiated readings. But I find the album confounding and challenging about trying to hold comfortable negotiated readings of it. Negotiated readings aren't stable. They don't hold. They get broken down and cut through.<br><br>I've got a negotiated reading of, say, Far Away. It's different than your reading. I put stuff in the song that is sort of there, but I have to negotiate it in. You do the same.<br><br>I don't feel my reading of Black Tiles (or Boom, or Tambourine, or Romance...) to be very negotiated. Idiosyncratic personal stuff that I put in the song was already there. If I peel back from specifics to more general readings, well, that's already there too.<br><br>There is something indirectly political to all this. I can't articulate it yet. But a political view lies under the surface.<br><br>Restated:<br><br>There is a grammar to a setlist, a grammar to a show, a grammar of talking to the band. Rules of construction. E.g.:<br><br>the standard stage chatter of greeting and preemptive warning before musing that it was "a strange night to be starting a new project."<br><br>I like Black Tiles as opening number here. It speaks to the context.Garrett Schurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10376087763339135242noreply@blogger.com