YEAR TWO! Revisiting day 1 of New Music America 1980 Minneapolis and 1981 San Francisco
Though I had a couple of sneak previews, 'twas on this date that I started the daily New Music America posts not knowing whether I'd have enough material or repackaging ability to last a full year...
…yup, I did. Index coming up for the full “first year” over the next week or so.
About my plans for the substack, I’m going to write an ‘artist description’ or something of the nature to declare my intentions to continue this thing for a couple of years. This is subject to any kind of pleasurable activity including but not limited to falling in love that would take me away from a discipline needed to give a gift to the world every day, which was also an intention.
Travel might also create a few holes in the daily scheduling as well, unless I figure out a way to go from semi-welfare $10K a year status to a fully funded oral history project that could take me back to the ten cities of the festival to really get some stuff worthy of posting and worthy of you, dear readers.
I had hastened production of, and dedicated all my time to getting…