Two Lone Swordsmen Quotes

Well in a way it never took over the world. I mean a lot of pop music nowadays has dance music production, whether that�s R�n B or kind of disco stuff. But I heard on the radio yesterday that a million guitars were sold last year, ten years ago everyone was going �turntables have overtaken guitar sales� but it�s completely turned around the other way now. And it�s gone back to rock�n roll. The record companies are more interested in signing rock �n roll bands but having said that you�ve witnessed this festival, and it started off from what I can gather as a dance orientated kind of festival and I�m booked up until next year ( laughs) so there�s a very healthy scene. It�s just that superclub thing died a little bit of a death, which is kind of good because that wasn�t really about the music, that was about a sort of easily purchased lifestyle, and the music was kind of secondary but we�ve got away from that and it�s gone a little bit more underground and it�s all about smaller clubs and local DJs creating their own scene you know.
Andrew Weatherall

It�s a good thing and a bad thing, music technology, the ability to make music and listen to it can be a good thing but it�s like any technology in human hands, we�re like chimpanzees with a new toy, you know what I mean and basically at the moment, how I see it with ipods and downloading everybody�s walking around with a big box of chocolates in front of them and all they�re doing is they�re taking the chocolate out, taking a little nibble and then going �oh I dunno about that one� and putting it back in the box. They�re not really digesting and they�re not really taking their time. You know you get these magazines and it says download track one, six and four and it�s taking any kind of development out of the music. It�s a great thing that all this music is available but human beings are greedy creatures and we�re currently in an age which is kind of like the tyranny of choice.
Andrew Weatherall