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has the list limped to the side of the wrong road?
My fellow followers of Over the Rhine,
(I use these words pretty loosely.)
I've been following Over the Rhine since I first saw the band at Sudsy's
during my brief tenure in Cincinnati. I was involved with the Cincinnati
ballet, and my involvement consisted mostly of leaps and bends and being
carried on the shoulders of young men. Over the Rhine was as lost as I was,
but I could tell that there was something special going on, and I could tell
they longed to be drunk on the fleeting beauty of this life and were trying
to find the words. I eventually relocated to NYC, and I slipped into the
back of the Lamb's, that odd, lovely little theater tucked away in the heart
of a building that apparently functions on many different levels. It had
been a few years, but when I heard Karin's voice, it was as if the credits
of my life began to roll in front of me right along with hers and the lights
went down and the characters appeared and disappeared. Friends, foes and
lovers alike. I slipped out immediately following the last quirky encore and
breathed deeply beneath the lights of this amazing, tired city and I was
sort of flying I suppose because I certainly don't remember my feet touching
the ground. I longed to connect with others who could help me come down.
A friend turned me on to the new website, and I found it to be quite a
delightful place to spend a few hours. (Have you found the drawings?) I also
found the discussion list and signed up and poked around for a bit in the
archives. Try as I might, I can't draw a line from Over the Rhine's music,
to the vast majority of exchanges that I found on this list. If I understand
correctly, the discussion list is a service paid for by the band as a
service to fans. I was just curious if anybody had any ideas how the tone of
much of the discussion became so foreign to the tone of the band's music or
musings. Over the Rhine has never been afraid to plumb some of the darker
aspects of human nature, but they don't typically bicker with their
listeners, or find cynicism cute, or get a good chuckle out of a
mean-spirited attack. Most of all, they don't celebrate a small-minded
approach to life. I found a lot of the discussions to be a bit stifling and
irrelevant and quite tedious, frankly. And I hate to use the word boring,
but... There were definite exceptions but they tended to be a bit hard to
come by. Has anyone on this list longed for something a bit more relevant or
enlightening? Why have you stuck around?
Curious,
H. Thibaut
ps Did you all receive the letter that is sent out when you subscribe to the
list, or was this only a recent development? If you did, and it was to
loosely function as something that subscribers agreed to, most of you must
have hit the "I Ignore" option. Again, I'm mostly just curious as to how
this disparity could have happened.
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