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There is a small controversy brewing in our neighbor to the south over the San Diego CityBeat’s music issue that spotlights local music in San Diego. Grumblings started a few days ago when it was announced that the two “local” bands who got the cover were, Grand Ole Party (huge fan!) and Delta Spirit (ehh, not so much…), with the controversy stemming over whether Delta Spirit are really a “local” band. And while this all may sound trivial, it is the nature of this arguement that really gives us outsiders a glimpse into how protective people in San Diego are of their scene, which has historically been and still is, dismissed or overlooked by the “industry”.
Head over to San Diego Dialed In and Cat Dirt Sez for their perspectives on the subject, as well as comments from the paper’s music editor, Troy Johnson.
I really just started reading these San Diego blogs as well as the others linked in the sidebar because I started to become interested in some San Diego bands that have yet to really break out of San Diego, see Grand Ole Party, The Prayers, The Muslims, and Fifty on Their Heels. And it has been through reading these blogs that my idea of whats going on in SD has changed. Before I thought Swami Records, John Reis, and Gar Wood were the island in a sea of shitty hardcore, pop punk, and Christian rock that dominated San Diego and it’s reputation. But now I have come to understand there is an extremely fierce diy scene going on down there that is spawning some really great new bands, many of which include former members of bands who struggled to break out in the late ’90’s early 2000’s and never seemed to get a fair shake at a national level.
Check out the articles, the blogs, and the bands mentioned above, odds are, you’ll find something you like.
5. April 2007 at 4:24 pm :
the funniest episode in the long-running “are they actually a san diego band or what?” saga came in the mid 90s when Stone Temple Pilots won a San Diego Music Award about a year after they had moved to la and signed to a major. There was actually an on stage scuffle at the ceremony and everything.
I respect Troy Johnson(music editor of city beat) and he has stepped up his game in the last year, but I think, you know, if he or his reporter had ASKED Delta Spirit “do you consider yourself a San Diego band?” they would have said “no.”
I saw this because one of the two bloggers you mentioned above (not me) asked Delta Spirit that exact same question prior to the city beat article coming out and they answered (I quote) “Our music feels more at home in los angeles.” That didn’t really come out in the ensuing debate, but wtf?