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Polluteme / Polluted Ezine / Editorial
written by: Jacob Robison
What's up peoples? Just chillin' on this end. First of all, I hope everyone likes the new look to the Polluted Ezine. The plan is to get a different local artist each month to design the cover. I have someone working on the next one as we speak. If anyone is interested in doing a cover you can email me some samples of your work at tribal@polluteme.com. Now that that's out of the way, let's move on to some more points I'd like to bring up. First and foremost I'd like to make a plea to the scene down in Nashville. I've been involved with the scene in the area in one form or another for the past couple of years now, and I've heard a lot of the musicians involved say that they want to come together for the betterment of the scene. The only problem is that's all it has been...talk. No action whatsoever. So here's my plea: grow some damn balls, swallow your egos and come together before the scene dies entirely. It's not going to get any better until someone stops the talking and starts doing something about it. Actions speak far more loudly than words, and they mean a whole lot more too. I've heard suggestions for everything from forming street teams to starting underground magazines, and it all looks good on paper. The hard part is making it happen. Start small, like with a small black and white pamphlet four or so pages long announcing show dates, show reviews and such. Black and white copies don't cost a whole lot nowadays (maybe three to seven cents a copy), and if you can figure out how to lay out the pamphlet the right way you can get a whole lot of them made up for damn near next to nothing. I used to put out underground magazines before I joined the website, so I know what I'm talking about. It doesn't have to be a big movement right away, but if you show that you are serious about doing something it'll get bigger and bigger until it won't go away. All it takes is one person to decide to do something, and then actually follow through with it. This is something that the fans should get involved in too. Not just fans of one or two bands, but fans of the music in general should show their support and pitch in. This is your chance to show your love to the musicians that sacrifice their lives for the music that entertains you. The time for talk is over my friends; you can either put up or shut up from now on. Let's come together and start something huge. Let's start a fuckin' musical revolution. The next thing that I would like to talk about is a radio station out of Paducah, Kentucky: 106.7 WZZL. Brent Hinson, one of the on-air DJ's, is getting together a local/independent music show called...you guessed it...the Local's Only show. It airs between eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock on Sunday nights, and so far he's put together three shows. I began doing call-in interviews for the show two weeks ago, something that I've never done before in my life. But hey, it's all good. They're looking for local and independent music from everywhere, so if you want to get some radio time you can send CD's to the following address: WZZL Local Only Show, P.O. Box 7501 Paducah, KY 42002 Atten: Brent Hinson. Feel free to flood their post office box with your original music anytime you feel like it. Be sure and tell Brent that we sent you. We're going to set up 106.7 their own special little section to the site when we can get around to it, so look out for that. The last thing I'm going to talk about this editorial is the last Backwoods Metalfest my friends and I threw on May 18. I want to say thank you to the bands that drove to a town in the middle of fuckin' nowhere to play a show. Faucetmouth drove close to six hours from Arkansas to get to Cadiz, and both Lappdog and Abraid drove close to two and a half hours apiece. Kon'shens got the easy end of the stick; they practice fifteen miles from Cadiz. Every band kicked much ass (I doubt you can book a better line-up), and the crowd in Cadiz is getting better and better with every show. They got up for each band, forcing the bands to play their asses off. Pretty soon we will have built a really good crowd for every band to play to. My personal goal is to build the crowd up to where it can compete with the crazy fuckers down in Jackson, Tennessee, who are without a doubt the best music fans around. I went down there for the second time in two months a couple weeks ago, and even though the crowd was a bit smaller the second time around the level of intensity in the crowd was still up there. Why can't every city have a crowd like Jackson? Answer: they can, but it takes a lot of work (refer to first paragraph). On a more personal note, doesn't it piss you off to know that the average crowd in Nashville doesn't have shit on the one in the middle of bum-fucked Kentucky (the guys in Abraid can attest to that)? If I were from Nashville it would piss me way off. Well, that's all I can think of to bitch about. I hope I pissed someone off enough to get off their ass and make a positive impact in the scene. If I didn't I shall have to try harder. Until next time, remember: a man who goes to bed naked with an itchy asshole wakes up with a smelly finger. Until next time. Later. Jacob Robison, Editor of Polluted Ezine |
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