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When I was invited to do the keynote speech of this year's conference I was a little hesitant because the word keynote made me uncomfortable. It seemed to suggest that there was a key note to be struck that sums up whatever is going on out there in the streets. Five days of bands, hundreds of venues from morning till night and no one really hardly agrees on anything in pop anymore. There is no key note, I don't think. There is no unified theory of everything. But you can pick any band, say KISS, and you can go, . Get the fuck out of here! There was even a recent book that focused on The Beatles and decided, you got it, they sucked. So really, instead of a keynote speech, I thought that perhaps this should be a key notes speech, or perhaps many keynote speakers. I exaggerate for effect, but only a little bit. So with that as my disclaimer, I move cautiously on. Still, it's great to be in a town with ten thousand bands, or whatever they, uh .. Back in late '6. 4 when I picked up a guitar, that would have seemed like some insane, teenage pipe dream, because first of all, it would have been numerically impossible. There just weren't that many guitars to go around in those days. They simply hadn't made that many yet. We would have all had to have been sharing. But guitar players were rare. Mostly music- schooled. And bands were rare and, until the Beatles hit, played primarily instrumental music. And there wasn't that much music to play. When I picked up the guitar, there was only 1. That would be like all of known pop being only the music that you know that's occurred between 2. The most groups in one place I had ever seen as a teenager was twenty bands at the Keyport- Matawan Roller Drome in a battle to the death. So many styles were overlapping at that point in time that you would have a doo- wop singing group with full pompadours and matching suits set up next to our band, playing a garage version of Them's . And still that's nothing minutely compared to what's going on on the streets of Austin right now. So it's incredible to be back. I've had a lot of fun here in Austin since the '7. Jim Franklin and the Armadillo World Headquarters. And so it's fascinating to see what's become of the music that I've loved my whole life. Pop's become, I guess, a new language, cultural force, social movement. Actually, a series of new languages, cultural forces, and social movements that have inspired and enlivened the second half of the 2. I mean, who would have thought that there would have been a sax- playing president, or a soul- singing president, you know? When we started, 3. You know, Bill Halley kept his age a relative secret. So when Danny and the Juniors sang ? When I look out from my stage these days, I look into the eyes of three generations of people, and still popular music continues to provide its primary function as youth music, as a joyous argument- starter and as a subject for long booze- filled nights of debate with Steve Van Zandt over who reigns ultimately supreme. There are so many sub- genres and factions: two- tone, acid rock, alternative dance, alternative metal, alternative rock, art punk, art rock, avant- garde metal, black metal, black and death metal, Christian metal, heavy metal, funk metal, glam metal, medieval metal, indie metal, melodic death metal, melodic black metal, metalcore, hard core, electronic hard core, folk punk, folk rock, pop punk, Brit- pop, grunge, sad core, surf music, psychedelic rock, punk rock, hip- hop, rap rock, rap metal, Nintendo core .. I just want to know what Nintendo core is, myself. But: rock noir, shock rock, skate punk, noise core, noise pop, noise rock, pagan rock, paisley underground, indie pop, indie rock, heartland rock, roots rock, samba rock, screamo, emo, shoe- gazing stoner rock, swamp pop, synth pop, rock against communism, garage rock, blues rock, death and roll, lo- fi, jangle pop .. Just add neo- and post- to everything I said, and mention them all again. Uh, oh, yeah, and rock 'n' roll. I mean, holy shit, this is all going on in this town right now. For a guy who realizes U2 is probably the last band he is going to know the names of all four members of, it's overwhelming. So perhaps the most prophetic comment I've heard over the past quarter- century about rock music was made by Lester Bangs, upon Elvis' death. In 1. 97. 7, Lester Bangs said Elvis was probably the last thing we were all going to agree on, Public Enemy not counting. From here on in, you would have your heroes and I would have mine. The center of your world may be Iggy Pop, or Joni Mitchell or maybe Dylan. Mine might be KISS, or Pearl Jam, but we would never see eye- to- eye again and be brought together by one music again. And his final quote in the article was, . And I think the best of them believe that they have the power to turn Lester's prophecy inside out and to beat his odds. So as the records that my music was initially released on give way to a cloud of ones and zeroes, and as I carry my entire record collection since I was 1. I'd like to talk about the one thing that's been consistent over the years: the genesis and power of creativity, the power of the songwriter, or let's say composer, or just creator. So whether you're making dance music, Americana, rap music, electronica; it's all about how you are putting what you do together. The elements you're using don't matter. Purity of human expression and experience is not confined to guitars, to tubes, to turntables, to microchips. There is no right way, no pure way, of doing it. There's just doing it. We live in a post- authentic world. And today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, your personal history. And at the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters. So I'm gonna talk a little bit today about how I've put what I've done together, in the hopes that someone slugging away in one of the clubs tonight may find some small piece of it valuable. And this being Woody Guthrie's 1. South by Southwest Conference, I'm also gonna talk a little about my musical development, and where it intersected with Woody's, and why. In the beginning, every musician has their genesis moment. For you, it might have been the Sex Pistols, or Madonna or Public Enemy. It's whatever initially inspires you to action. Mine was 1. 95. 6, Elvis on The Ed Sullivan Show. It was the evening I realized a white man could make magic, that you did not have to be constrained by your upbringing, by the way you looked or by the social context that oppressed you. You could call upon your own powers of imagination and you could create a transformative self. A certain type of transformative self, that perhaps at any other moment in American history, might have seemed difficult, if not impossible. And I always tell my kids that they were lucky to be born in the age of reproducible technology. Otherwise, they'd be traveling in the back of a wagon and I'd be wearing a jester's hat. It's all about timing. It's all about timing. The advent of television and its dissemination of visual information changed the world in the '5. Internet has over the past twenty years. Remember, it wasn't just the way Elvis looked; it was the way he moved that made people crazy, pissed off, driven to screaming ecstasy and profane revulsion. When they made an attempt to censor him from the waist down, it was because of what you could see happening in his pants. Elvis was the first modern 2. Civil Rights revolution, drawn from the same Memphis as Martin Luther King, creating fundamental outsider art that would be embraced by a mainstream popular culture. Television and Elvis gave us full access to a new language; a new form of communication; a new way of being; a new way of looking; a new way of thinking about sex, about race, about identity, about life; a new way of being an American, a human being and a new way of hearing music. Once Elvis came across the airwaves, once he was heard and seen in action, you could not put the genie back in the bottle. After that moment, there was yesterday, and there was today, and there was a red hot, rockabilly forging of a new tomorrow before your very eyes. So, one week later, inspired by the passion in Elvis' pants, my little six- year- old fingers wrapped themselves around a guitar neck for the first time, rented from Mike Diehl's Music in Freehold, New Jersey. They just wouldn't fit. Failure with a capital . Come on, you gotta check your moves! But even before there was Elvis, my world had begun to be shaped by the little radio with the six- inch mono speaker that sat on top of our refrigerator. My mother loved music, and she raised us on pop music radio. So between 8: 0. 0 and 8: 3. I snowed sugar onto my Sugar Pops, the sounds of early pop and doo- wop whispered into my young and impressionable ears.
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