Bands Who Blog
New York Times: Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog.
[The Hold Steady's Tad] Kubler regards fan interaction as an obligation that is cultural, almost ethical. He remembers what it was like to be a young fan himself, enraptured by the members of Led Zeppelin. “That’s all I wanted when I was a fan, right?” he said. “To have some small contact with these guys you really dug. I think I’m still that way. I’ll be, like, devastated if I never meet Jimmy Page before I die.” Indeed, for a guitarist whose arms are bedecked in tattoos and who maintains an aggressive schedule of drinking, Kubler seems genuinely touched by the shy queries he gets from teenagers.
LouBerkman
1835 days ago
I read most of this article this AM and I would have to say that musicians are far more available to fans now than they used to be. We are all the richer for this.