Welcome to Don’t Smoke in Bed, a blog started with two simple things in mind: a love of music and a burning desire to write about it. Too much is written about music from a need to fill pages, placate record companies and “keep up” with what everybody else is listening to. There’s not enough of a genuine passion (or loathing) for whichever artist is being written about. I stand as someone who has been guilty of this charge in the past, and this is my penance as well as my opportunity. For too long I have wallowed in the realm of musical mediocrity just to get my name in print or on screen, without allowing my craft to develop in a direction free from restraint. So to hell with popular reassurance, Don’t Smoke in Bed is about speaking the truth because it must be said; and having fun in the meantime.
Please feel free to comment with contributions, feedback and rants. I’ll even welcome abuse if it gets a dialogue going.
11 April 2008 at 11:30 pm |
“Don’t Smoke In Bed” – like Nina Simone?
I like what I see so far
Music rants and passion-running-amok are all good to me! (Even though my personal musical knowledge is tres weak, as you know!)
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