I’ll be over here listening to the self titled and spiraling down nostalgia lane. Ian being Ian over the years, there’s I guess some baggage to being a stone roses fan… but the music on the self titled and Turns Into Stone will never leave me.

Also- I hope Steve is doing alright. (8/8)

being the person who co-opts someone else’s end of life; there are just certain times when “RIP king” etc just don’t feel like enough.
What a fucking quiet but unmistakable FORCE that man was.

My heart truly does go out to his sons who’ve lost their dad and mom far too soon. 💔

So anyway, (7/?)

in some store looking at whatever I couldn’t care less about.
Which is probably why hearing about Mani’s passing today felt like everything from a punch in the throat to a shadow over my own grave. I’m absolutely certain I’m not alone in that reaction. And while I usually don’t like publicly (6/?)

felt incredibly fortunate to have made a living messing with gear and running around with bands and doing Adobe things or directing the efforts of others doing Adobe things… but there is such a massive amount of that that launched as I was sitting in my dad’s truck vibing out while he was (5/?)

Somewhere around this time I became fixated on John Squire’s guitars and Mani’s bass parts. And no shade to Reni, but that hot pants break on fool’s gold ultimately changed how I thought music even had to be made.
Despite stresses and anxieties that surround the day to day, I’ve always (4/?)

to New Order etc. I vividly remember asking my dad to take me to a record shop on the way to his house for one of my weekend visits.
I snapped up the Stone Roses self titled LP and dove down a path that would ultimately connect me to everything from the Happy Mondays to 808 State. (3/?)

And so we did. I was just some kid absorbed in The Cure atp, so I wasn’t really fixating on NME or anything to get my music- so when Steve put on “I wanna be adored” it was like I was levitated out of that room and flew to Manchester. There was suddenly something new happening that connected (2/?)

If he did it, at least he’d turn it into a big thing so the audience could participate.

Weekly meeting. Also next Wednesday basically doesn’t exist lol.

And here is a little preview of my shenanigans…

*except pierce. Pierce just became a weird ass meta reflection on Chevy Chase

I feel like R&M ramps up the character baggage so much that it consumes all joy cumulatively- where I feel like on community the actors, for better or worse, drove character development and story beats in ways that ultimately leaned more toward redemption arcs / lovable ppl despite amplifying flaws.