The Future

[Self]

Hopefully no one shall take offense at this question which I have been housing for a few weeks and well if anyone does then I would like to offer a full-heart request for forgiveness for my ignorant. So allow me to make an attempt to gather these thoughts into a comprehensible pose so I can finish typing at this post and get to class. I guess the genesis of my question lays in the argument (hosted in my head) about whether the Elephant 6 collective are just a group of artists with few like-minded sensibilities who are all united under a banner or whether they are more, such as a sub-cultural movement with similar life philosophies and aesthetic beliefs . This question lead me to question the future of this “collective�, “movement�, or whatever it is. Once the heart of the Elephant 6 (the major bands which make Elephant 6 what is it) leave the stage (as the major namesake Neutral Milk Hotel already has) what will happen to it has a entity? Like a Velvet Underground without Lou Reed, will is just move on for a while in a changed form? I know this is not foreseeable but I was just wondering about how people see the future of this wonderful collection of bands.

Sorry if I am too wordy.

[Edited on 11-15-2005 by Self]

[Edited on 11-15-2005 by Self]

[phil]

Well, as a record label, it's defunct. As a "loose collective," it's activity is in the ear of the listener. Really, e6 is more of an idea now than an actual entity. It's a legacy of sorts. The future is the past, as far as this goes.

[Self]

So you’re of the opinion that the E6 of the future is not so much a evolved, living entity as much a husk treasured because of the grandeur of its originators? You do not feel that any other band(s) will step in the place of the “biggies� or is that just unrealistic to think that such a succession would take place?

[Self]

A trip down old memory land back to the Seattle music scene can inspire such musing as the “death� of a particular thing. People tend to like to proclaim the death of things whether it be G-d, artistic movement, or a person but as you have rightly noted the memory Elephant 6 has a enshrined place in history. But it is not a phenomenon that has burnt out I do not think, people are still here and posting and loving the still current music of these bands. Your friend’s statement about “irrelevant 6� is like the scene in the Holy Grail where they are carrying away the bodies on the cart: “I’m not dead!� -- “Yes, you are�. Eh. I don’t know.

[pomaceous]

I was looking through old posts and found a disscussion similar to this one:

Originally posted by captain23
elephant6 is not dead. its a state of mind.Originally posted by kelly
Robert Schneider told me he has written an essay about this topic. he's going to send it to me to post on the E6 website. i'll let you know when it's on there...

Has anyone read the essay? I haven't seen it on the E6 website.