What kind of pop star would *insert name of music writer* had become had their initial bid to become a musician (had) succeded?

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Over to you ILX.

― chrys sallys, Sunday, 17 November 2002 19:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Apologies for the syntax, Cava has kind of mashed my brain.

― chrystophersallys, Sunday, 17 November 2002 19:51 (twenty-three years ago)

In my defence I got an A for(/at?) Eng. Lit. A level - (they didn't offer A Level Eng. Lang. at my school and my social/sex/professional life has suffered as a result ((of that))).

(:P)

― chrys sallys, Sunday, 17 November 2002 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, for a start, you could stop mispelling your name. The 'Y' instead of the 'I' will piss people off.

Hope that helps.

― k nearly, Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Patti Smith would have been some sort of hippie poet.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

and was!

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

ROCK IS BACK!

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Is there anyone the question actually applies to? I know slagging a music critic off as a failed musician is common enough, but are there any cases where it's true?

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

And Lester Bangs doesn't count, cuz he was a critic well before he was a musician. Hence, David Toop neither.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 17 November 2002 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Cough cough Cliff Jones of Gay Dad 'fame'.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

What happenned to your rock career, Suzy?

― Graham (graham), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I never had one.

Closest I got was vague plans to do art project based around a 'concept band', Spam Javelin. SJ had no songs, just titles, and fully realised cover art. It was based on everything that either freaked me out or I deemed tacky when 14. The CD had on its cover a stoners' van with airbrushed painted sunset and the LP was named "Don't Laugh, Your Daughter May Be Inside" after the bumper-sticker attached to the rear of this van. Music was plundering Journey and REO Speedwagon records with weird electro bits and click-track.

― suzy (suzy), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's just assume they all did that initial bid thing (in their head if nowhere else) and start talking about how Robert Christgau would've been tough competition for Byrne and Simon...

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

James, have you heard of Everett True?

― chrys sallys, Sunday, 17 November 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

and he was one of the more successful ones

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 18 November 2002 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

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