Boundaries, Walls and The Barricade. 💃🏼🦾🕺🏽
Reflecting on the challenges we’ve overcome (or perhaps, smashed through?) in our lives that have made a significant difference today in my mindset today – this picture of #L7theband in concert this year got me thinking….🤔 Of course a barricade, it is a necessary safety measure, but it also presents a symbolic contradiction, especially within the #metal #rock #indiemusic scene/s. While ensuring safety, it paradoxically undermines the intimacy and ground-level engagement that are hallmarks of music (and cultural) movements. These physical barriers are absolutely necessary for us now, they help us perform at higher level without worrying about each others safety, but that separation of performer and audience dilute the raw, communal experience that #punk #rave are built on.
For some L7 audiences, we did have fun breaking that rule on the “In Your Space Tour” where we played with no barricades. What was that like for any of you who attended? For me, it was that same contradiction, the wanting to be close, but the concern of getting another black-eye from the crowd. (there is a post – social media and my website/blog – from this same month where you can see that “shiner”).
It’s a curious reminder of how sometimes, the things meant to protect us can also hold us back from the very essence of what we seek in life (and art).
AND – this maybe a topic for a different post, but Ill ask anyway: Have you ever put up a boundary, only to discover it was a wall and than a barrier (or even a barricade)?
No real change in life is made without getting up close and personal with the obstacles, rules, thoughts, fears and habits – radically accepting the situation and checking in to see if the dangers are actually still true.
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