Originally Posted by
pigpen
So, I was thinking about TR's output pre and post TF..
Obviously there's a tortured, violent, and chaotic element to the 90's records that has remained unmatched in the 2000's.
There's a guy by the name of Pat The Bunny, who is pretty popular in the folk-punk scene who used to put out records under the name Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains.
He'd sing songs of being an alcoholic/heroin addict and all of the things that go along with that.. Then he got clean, and now refuses to play those old songs, even though
they are arguably his best, but to play them, to him, is just dishonest and he's beyond that at this point...
The career of TR has ridden the same line, and in that, I kind of found a new appreciation for the post "throws of addiction" records he's released.
..I don't know, it's random but having read a bit about PTB, I found the parallels interesting.