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RE: Aaaack!

	I'm not all that surprised by Brian leaving or let go.  This
certainly isn't the first time this has happened.  It seems like this band
is Linford's baby, and he'll do whatever he has to, to keep it going in the
direction he wants.  I wish the Karen and Linford Band well, but I don't see
myself following their music like I used to.  I guess I already don't follow
them that closely, since I've only seen them once since Ric left.
	Seems to me they had a good thing, but creative differences and band
direction got in the way, and Linford won.
joe

	-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua M. Neds-Fox [mailto:jnedsfox at moody_edu]
Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 12:42 PM
To: binkmeisterrick at yahoo_com; over-the-rhine at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Aaaack!


> one less reason to go out of my way to a little stand if it's becoming
> too impersonal. i can get apples at a supermart if i want impersonal...

A 'PopMart', if you will.

I'm disillusioned.  I really am.  Maybe I put them up on a pedastal, a
little.  So it's partly my fault.  But all that really wonderful rhetoric
about the vegatable stand starts to seem... common.

Bruce mentioned at Canal Street a few weeks back that Over The Rhine has
the best fans.  He liked that about OTR shows, that one could talk to a
fellow audience member and he'd turn out to be a really genuinely great
and nice guy.  He mentioned that he didn't feel the same about other bands' 
fans, that the same thing doesn't happen at other bands' shows.

Zena posited a theory about that to me after the show-- and although this
isn't the actual theory she proposed, what it boiled down to was that OTR
fans strike Bruce the way they do because of who Linford and Karen are.  We
respond to something in them.  

I'm overreacting.  Whether or not a band is a tight 'family' or a 'unit' or
a 'construct' or a 'business' doesn't say anything about whether Linford is
acting selfishly or not.  What do I know about the true thoughts and
feelings of any of these people?  Brian left the band once before, or was
let go.  Maybe he's totally on top of this.  Maybe Jack loves this gig.
Maybe there are secret tears.  Maybe there are broken hearts, and maybe
there are sighs of relief.  Who can say?

Maybe this is a *good* time to start busting up fantasies.  Why should I
keep constructing this 'Bizarro World' Linford in my mind when I could be
letting the real Linford be himself, whoever that is?  I gotta live in the
real world after I turn off the CD player, anyway.

> but i can't imagine another drummer than Brian.....

You won't have to imagine.

> forgive
> my sarcasm, but this doesn't make me happy.

Yeah, but God is still good, Amen.  And so is 'Patience.'  And 'Eve.'  And
life's not about OTR, or being happy, ultimately.  And none of this changes
me or you in any real way... it just changes circumstance.

Overintellectualizing,
jnf