Bio-graph... Well, not so much. I do not intend this post to divulge that much which is personal, but that to which I have been personally exposed. Also, to show how a look back, every coupla years, changes one's perspective.
To wit: bar-none, this man is by far the most famous person I have known; also, prolly the most amenable and even-tempered. That said, I did not know him well. Merely, he served as my entree into the circle I kept, unbroken and unbowed, from the mid-90s to the turn of the Willenium. But, knowing that, I always respected him -- he had the temerity to welcome a relative newcomer to an insular group -- that I had known of, in part, from involvement with high-school debate -- but that I would not have had the guts to attempt to join. He was (and remains) a better man than any of the ones to whom I was a closer friend.
He is also the greatest achiever. Klaxon Exhaust (note: not his real name) might have gone on, after I parted ways, to slay the capitalist-militarist hegemon (insomuch as Milwaukee is now a socialist utopia in a "red-states sea") with the New Bomb Nationals (whose lead singer/guitarist now reviews albums, rather obviously, for the ONION), but his former high-school chum is a nationally-recognizable face. And a winner.
Likewise, I bought the second album from Milwaukee avant-core band Since by Man last summer, and made a point to scan the liner-jacket thank-you's list for names I would know: Chris Roberts, Joe Rizzo, et. al. Oddly, no such luck. Though, I did recognize one name: Sam Keck. Younger brother to a former employer of mine -- I painted houses on Matt Keck's crew after freshman year of college -- and punk-rock singer, Sam was, I thought, a legend in 'Stallis but nowhere else. No, he was not of the same scene as the crew from the Labyrinth, not down with the punker lifers. In fact, some might have even called him a poseur, by comparison. Yet, on the latest from Milwaukee hardcore stalwarts Since by Man, Keck the Younger was the only one of my acquaintance with the various local scenes at the turn of the Willenium to get a thank you. Not even Chris Roberts, now married to a total babe and drumming in the free-jazz collective the Silence, but who went to PXI with the SBM boys, merited a mention. But "poseur" Sam Keck...
Odd how time proves out.
To wit: bar-none, this man is by far the most famous person I have known; also, prolly the most amenable and even-tempered. That said, I did not know him well. Merely, he served as my entree into the circle I kept, unbroken and unbowed, from the mid-90s to the turn of the Willenium. But, knowing that, I always respected him -- he had the temerity to welcome a relative newcomer to an insular group -- that I had known of, in part, from involvement with high-school debate -- but that I would not have had the guts to attempt to join. He was (and remains) a better man than any of the ones to whom I was a closer friend.
He is also the greatest achiever. Klaxon Exhaust (note: not his real name) might have gone on, after I parted ways, to slay the capitalist-militarist hegemon (insomuch as Milwaukee is now a socialist utopia in a "red-states sea") with the New Bomb Nationals (whose lead singer/guitarist now reviews albums, rather obviously, for the ONION), but his former high-school chum is a nationally-recognizable face. And a winner.
Likewise, I bought the second album from Milwaukee avant-core band Since by Man last summer, and made a point to scan the liner-jacket thank-you's list for names I would know: Chris Roberts, Joe Rizzo, et. al. Oddly, no such luck. Though, I did recognize one name: Sam Keck. Younger brother to a former employer of mine -- I painted houses on Matt Keck's crew after freshman year of college -- and punk-rock singer, Sam was, I thought, a legend in 'Stallis but nowhere else. No, he was not of the same scene as the crew from the Labyrinth, not down with the punker lifers. In fact, some might have even called him a poseur, by comparison. Yet, on the latest from Milwaukee hardcore stalwarts Since by Man, Keck the Younger was the only one of my acquaintance with the various local scenes at the turn of the Willenium to get a thank you. Not even Chris Roberts, now married to a total babe and drumming in the free-jazz collective the Silence, but who went to PXI with the SBM boys, merited a mention. But "poseur" Sam Keck...
Odd how time proves out.
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