On The Desk Of The Edit or Empt y Famil y Por t r ait s: The Dismissal of Those Once Essent ial
by Kenneth Fury CW: SEXUAL ASSAULT/ABUSE For those who play guitar, do vocals or even write songs, challenging questions have been placed in front of us. When we stop supporting those who were once heroes due to abuse, it leaves many gaps. Not only do our music libraries shrink, but so does our pool of influences, as ghosts continue to crop up. Cold turkeying albums that you spun time after time, sometimes for years, can be incredibly disheartening. But more than this, more than the ache similar to losing an old friend, our art suffers. We become cut off from players, lyricists that MATTERED to us. Not only this, but how do we move past?
Attempting to pretend they never happened simply doesn?t work and is also irresponsible. No, I will not pretend I did not spend the entirety of last summer telling people I worshiped Lou Diamond's guitar playing (and then spent the rest of the year in some sort of horrified shock). In all honesty, I wanted to do heavier Jank- even jokingly referred to it as Jank with teeth. But when shit hit the fan, the wind was knocked out of me. 7
