18/05/2022
CALLING OUT.... DID YOUR MUSIC CREATIVITY SKILLS WORK LIFESTYLE OR SOMETHING........ CHANGE THE WORLD... ESSENTIALLY???LETS NOT BE SHY NOW...COZ WHEN YOU WERE OUT THERE DOIN IT! IT FELT LIKE YOU WERE!!!!????
I'VE PERSONALLY BEEN PROMOTING SUPPORTING THE INDEPENDENT DIY OL'SKOOL NON CORPORATE UNSIGNED UNDERGROUND MUSIC ARTISTS BANDS PERFORMERS CREATORZ MOVERZ N SHAKERZ OF THE WORLD SINCE 1988.... FROM .... BOOKING BANDS FOR EVENTS... TO BUILDING A SERIOUS COLLECTIVE OF THE INDEPENDENT DIY PUNK UNDERGROUND ANARCHIST INSTIGATORZ AND PROVOKATEURS... ANTI-SYSTEM POLITICAL PUNK ETHICS AND SOCIAL UNREST CAUSED BY THE THATCHER REGIME...LIVED IT... SURVIVED IT..JUST ABOUT...BUT IT ALWAYS WAS SURROUNDED BY THE MUSIC NETWORKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO PLAYED N PERFORMED IT!!!!
IN THE LATE 80's Early-Mid 90s I ran a Collaborative Effort that collaborated with another independent label and also another independent distributor..... n between US ...WE BOOKED THE BANDS... CREATED EVENTS...
BROUGHT THE MUSIC N THE PEOPLE WHO LISTENED TO IT TOGETHER...
FROM the HEART of LONDON ... DOWN to the SOUTH COAST of England!..... A Glorious Network of Tremendously LOUD PROUD UNIFIED FREE LIVIN THINKIN n KICKIN Individuals!.. WE DIDN'T WANT TO FIGHT!
WE DIDN'T WANNABE THE MISFITS...BUT WE DIDN'T FIT IN TO SOCIETIES PUBLIC INTEREST...CAUSED by THE SYSTEM THAT GOVERNED US!!
*WE* WERE PROFOUND...OUR IMPACT INGENUITY AND POWER WAS UNSTOPPABLE! & WE WENT TO GREAT EXTREMES TO VALIDATE & BE A PRESENCE IN THE WORLD WE HAD TO EXIST WITHIN!DO U REMEMBER?
NOW ...THINK ABOUT THE PHRASE BELOW.... OLD SCHOOL or OLD SKOOL or OL'SKOOL ....
TRAPPED IN A WORLD, WHERE WE DID BELONG! WHERE WE WERE PROFOUND!WHERE WE WERE NEEDED!
IN AN AGE...WHERE...OVER DECADES AND TIME.....WHERE WE WERE TRYING TO BRING A CULTURAL REVOLUTION... WE ACTUALLY SUCCEEDED [BY THE WAY]... THIS IS REFLECTED UPON BY THE VERY FOUNDATION OF WHAT BROUGHT ME.... TOGETHER..?WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHAPING MY WORLD.... NOT JUST FOR THEN THERE THAT TIME!...BUT ..FOR THEN...& RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!....
HOW MANY OF YOU CAN SAY THAT IT WAS THE MUSIC THAT WAS THE CATALYST FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT ETHICS MORALS BELIEFS UNDERSTANDINGS AND SOCIAL STATUS...NOW ...HERE YOU STAND IN LIFE!!!!?
I KNOW MYSELF...AS I AM MYSELF...ONLY GETTING OLDER... TIMES PAST... BATTLES LOST & WON.....
EVEN NOW..I FEEL , SOMETIMES, I'M FIGHTING FOR THR SAME FREEDOMS I DID SO MUCH SO LONG AGO!?
THIS MESSAGE, IN IT'S OWN PERSONAL REFLECTION, ONLY NOW... MAKES ME THINK & QUESTION ABOUT THESE THINGS THAT I WAS A SERIOUS PART OF... & IT WAS A CONSCIOUS COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE... I YOU WE KNOW THAT ... BECAUSE DESPITE THE YEARS, PASSED, WE STILL CONNECT WITH THE SAME PEOPLE, SOCIAL MEDIA HAS SHOWN US WE'VE CROSSED PATHS...N DIDN' EVEN KNOW IT....OR DID.
WE SHARE PHYSICAL PHOTOS OF TIMES SHARED....YET ONE THING I KNOW SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS DO FOR ME IS..... KEEP ME IN A SPACE... I DON'T HAVE TO .... GO HOP A TRAIN 🚆 TO GET YO A GIG EVENT PROTEST PARTY.. SOMEWHERE IN THE UK .. NOT THIS ONE... ANYWAY!!! BUT ...THE FACT IS... THAT WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN A QUESTION .... BACK THEN!....I WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE.. COME WHAT MAY!!!📢
WHEN I STARTED WORKING WITH THE UNDERGROUND MUSIC NETWORKS.... I WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE N BACK N THERE N BACK AGAIN.. AGAINST ALL ODDS... BUT ...N THERE IS A BUT..... BACK THEN.....
• WE COULD N DID ... HOP TRAINS WITH NO HASSLE •
• ONLY NEEDED A FEW QUID [POUNDS] TO GET IN & HAVE A DRINK WITH IT! •
• DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHERE WE WERE GONNA 'CRASH' THE NITE - SQUATS, FRIENDS COMMUNITIES LIFESTYLES WHATEVER WHOMEVER WHEREVER YOU WERE NEVER ALONE OR LEFT OUT ON THE STREETS... THERE WAS ALWAYS SOMEWHERE TO CRASH OR ANOTHER PARTY TO GO ONTO TO!•
I ASK ... WAS IT BECAUSE OF 'YOUTH'? 'POLITICS'? 'ECONOMICAL STATUSES'? ' NAIVITY'?
or
I ASK ... WAS IT BECAUSE... BACK THEN.. WE ACTUALLY DID GIVE A TOSS ABOUT THESE THINGS!?!?!?
NOW.. I BELIEVE... I'VE EITHER GOT THE ATTENTION OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED THRU ALL THAT I'VE TOLD or EVEN ARE JUST INTERESTED... OR THAT IS ONE PIECE OF THE FREE SAFE HAPPY UNIQUE VISIBLE PROFOUND ETHICAL GROUND-BREAKING LIFE-CHANGING [GET IT] TIMES THAT DESPITE ALL IT'S BAD PRESS MIS-REPRESENTED MIS-JUDGEMENTED MIS-INFORMED REPRESENTATION THAT IT WAS LABELLED AND SOCIALLY RECOGNISED AS ... IS NOW...IN THE YEAR 📢 2022 📢 GETTING IT'S JUST!!..N NOT JUST US!
BEING A PART OF THAT COMMUNITY ... WAS A MEANS OF SURVIVAL ... IT WAS AN ASSOCIATED INFLUENCE OF THE MANY INDIVIDUALLY LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHAPING UP AND CHANGING THE SYSTEM OF THIS GOVERNMENT AND SHOWING THEM.. RIGHT UP IN THEIR FACES .. THAT THERE WAS A SERIOUS CONSCIOUS COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY AND UNITED FRONT OF PEACEFUL UNIFIED FREE LIVIN THINKIN WANDERING CREATIVE ARTISTIC EXPRESSIONISM BUT NOT AN ISSUE WITH VIOLENCE WAR CONFRONTATIONAL PROTAGONISM... ALTHOUGH CAPABLE OF IT... APART FROM THE VERY FEW WHO NEVER UNDERSTOOD THE*REASONING BEHIND US*... WHATEVER WE DID WE DID IT WITH OUR VOICES... UNIFIED...NO UNIFORMS...NO PARTICULAR GENERATION...NO HYPOTHETICS ... VER CLEAR OR AT LEAST WE OR I HAD A VERY CLEAR COMPELLING AND PROFOUND ETHICAL REASONING FOR ALL & EVERYTHING I KNEW I REPRESENTED... & IT'S BEEN PLAYING ON REPEAT FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER!...
WHY IS THIS.....
THE MUSIC
THE NETWORKS
THE CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS
THE MESSAGES
THE INFORMATION
THE UNITY
THIS IS IT.... THIS IS THE BIG FINALÉ ... BEING INVOLVED IN THE INDEPENDENT DIY NON PROFIT NON CORP UNSIGNED UNDERGROUND MUSIC WORLD FOR ALL THESE DECADES ... STILL LISTENING TO THE OLD TRAX...LPS... VINYL.... DOWNLOADED.... CDS... CASSETTES.... WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU.... I STILL SHOUT OUT THE LYRICS & SCREAM THE WORDS.... n IT STILL MAKES ME FEEL LIKE CONNECTED TO MY LIFE WITHIN THE SYSTEM N SOCIETY THAT I LIVE... SOMETHING'S NOT RIGHT!?????IT CAN'T BE JUST BECAUSE I WAS A YOUTH...JUST BECAUSE THERE WAS A UNITED COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY.... NO... WE'RE STILL ALL HERE ... JUST LOST SOME AND TO BE HONEST LOSING MORE AS THE YEARS TICK BY.. N ITS SOMETHING RADICAL WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT...THINK ABOUT.....
SO I'LL GIVE YOU... SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.....
• 📢 OP-EAA MUSIC NETWORKS - ARTISTS OPPORTUNITIES 📢•
WE COLLECTIVELY, WANT TO BRING THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT WAS MY. N MAYBE SOME OF YOUR, OWN
FOUNDATION OF THE INDEPENDENT DIY NON PROFIT NON CORP UNSIGNED FREE FESTIVAL TRAVELING PARTYING PROTESTING LIVING N LOVING MUSIC MAKERZ CREATORZ MOVERZ N SHAKERZ INTO THE FOREFRONT OF THE WORLD ... YOU'VE ALL PROBABLY GOT AN ALBUM OR TWO THAT IS YOUR PERSONAL REFLECTION OF YOUR OWN WORLD OF IT'S TIME..... BUT IF YOU WERE TO BE ASKED THIS....
IF YOU WERE ASKED TO LEAVE *ONE* SONG, MUSIC TRAK , SPOKEN-WORD RECITAL, PHOTO, PICTURE, ARTISTIC EXPRESSION, ..... WORD..... FOR THOSE WHO ARE FOLLOWING IN YOUR FOOTSTEPS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT.... WHAT'S IT GONNA BE!?????
OP-EAA MUSIC NETWORKS is Bringing Together... Or at least hoping to .... A collection of The Music that Changed My Mind... It Shaped Me ... Traveled with Me ... Evolved thru Time.... (& No Matter what it actually Adapted for the purpose for Me Whenever Wherever However!) ...& This Music WAS & ALWAYS WILL Be...
Timeless ❤️ Whether it was made that way or Whether it just came to be..... Watching an Interview or 2 of NOW and the People who Lived It & Created It yet are still, like Me, almost FIGHTING for the RIGHT to BE WHO YOU ARE , NOT DOING ANYTHING TO INCONVENIENCE THE WORLD WE LIVE IN BUT JUST TO ULTIMATELY *BE* ... YOU!!! I believe that the ERA I lived thru was ESSENTIAL it was RADICAL it was GREAT & it did ACHIEVE "ACKNOWLEDGEMENT" ..IF it hadn't I wouldn't have to keep dramatically JUSTIFY My EXISTENCE with so many Others like Me! But I know that there are still THOSE WHO WILL & CAN BE BOTHERED & THOSE WHO WON'T...LIFE GETS BLURRY & THE NEED to BE WHO YOU ARE...NO LONGER MATTERS.! DOES IT??
THEY'VE EITHER ACCEPTED WHATEVER LIFE HAS IN STORE FOR THEM & THE REST.. IS JUST ENDING!
MAYBE....
Despite this ALL THIS.... LIKE " COVID 19 " ..... WE'RE PLANNING TO HIJACK THE SYSTEM AGAIN WITH THE MUSIC WE CREATE.... A NEW WORLD IS COMING OUT OF THE OLD LIES THAT HAVE COME THROUGH THE LIVING WORLD WE'VE JUST HAD TO COMBAT... N WE'RE STILL UP AGAINST IT!! ....
SO .. IF.. AT ANY POINT.. THIS RAMBLING OF WORDS OLD MEMORIES AND SOCIAL UNREST ... CLICKED A SPARK IN YOUR IMAGINATION & KNOWING YOURSELF...YOU WERE INDEED, ONE OF THEM .... IN ANY FORM..
& TRUTH BE TOLD... IT HASN'T BEEN.... THEN... COME ON... SHARE IT WITH ME..HERE at OP-EAA MUSIC NETWORKS
OUR UPCOMING COLLABORATION COMPILATION ALBUM RELEASE 🔥 WARNING 🔥 WARNING 🔥 IS GOING TO BE A UNITED COLLECTIVE OF THE OL'SKOOLERS.....
EITHER GIVE A SHOUT-OUT BELOW IN THE COMMENTS OF WHO DID IT FOR YOU
SHARE WITH US A TRAK & CONNECT WITH US ([email protected]) [or # + link below]
Or
GET IN TOUCH WITH ANYTHING EVERYTHING OR SOMETHING !!!!
LET'S LEAVE A POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT AND END... TO OUR HERITAGE CELEBRATIONS UNITY MEANING LOVE LIVES MUSIC LITERATURE ART AND SOCIAL PRESENCE!!!!!
