Triage was more than anything a product of the social climate
at the time-- It owed as much to George Bush, Anita Hill and the artillery over Baghdad as it did to Kurt Cobain. The "singer/songwriter" seemed at that time like a decadent anachronism, a vain waste, a foppish contradiction. That, as you might recall was a truly despicable and terrifying era; the Reagan/Bush Go-Go Eighties and its ancillary massacres in our recent past, and the Huxleyan spectacle of a bread and circuses culture run completely amok in our immediate future. It was the period leading directly towards the LA Riots, and hatred and madness was in the air. Strumming an acoustic and singing winsome tales of lost love against such a backdrop seemed just... wrong at the time. I wanted to smash things. Hence Triage's jagged tone and my subsequent silence.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
Boomtown Bedtime Triage
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Triage was more than anything a product of the social climate
at the time-- It owed as much to George Bush, Anita Hill and the artillery over Baghdad as it did to Kurt Cobain. The "singer/songwriter" seemed at that time like a decadent anachronism, a vain waste, a foppish contradiction. That, as you might recall was a truly despicable and terrifying era; the Reagan/Bush Go-Go Eighties and its ancillary massacres in our recent past, and the Huxleyan spectacle of a bread and circuses culture run completely amok in our immediate future. It was the period leading directly towards the LA Riots, and hatred and madness was in the air. Strumming an acoustic and singing winsome tales of lost love against such a backdrop seemed just... wrong at the time. I wanted to smash things. Hence Triage's jagged tone and my subsequent silence.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
at the time-- It owed as much to George Bush, Anita Hill and the artillery over Baghdad as it did to Kurt Cobain. The "singer/songwriter" seemed at that time like a decadent anachronism, a vain waste, a foppish contradiction. That, as you might recall was a truly despicable and terrifying era; the Reagan/Bush Go-Go Eighties and its ancillary massacres in our recent past, and the Huxleyan spectacle of a bread and circuses culture run completely amok in our immediate future. It was the period leading directly towards the LA Riots, and hatred and madness was in the air. Strumming an acoustic and singing winsome tales of lost love against such a backdrop seemed just... wrong at the time. I wanted to smash things. Hence Triage's jagged tone and my subsequent silence.
Yrs,
David Baerwald
