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Congratulations, now you're officially worse than USSR. In USSR, independent bands had very hard time recording or playing on stage, but they could always gath
by guard-of-terra 14y ago
Congratulations, now you're officially worse than USSR.
In USSR, independent bands had very hard time recording or playing on stage, but they could always gather on some flat and play music and nobody bothered them.
(Don't know why, maybe it's actually illegal for police to enter your home, maybe it's just decency)
And now it's illegal in the USA.
All this does is destroying all the new music that isn't profitable/hot enough to afford real venues yet. Talk so much about innovation and garages.
- pessimizer 14y agoThis isn't new. Depending on the town, time of day(or night), and whether you take money, house shows are often illegal. Not entirely unreasonable, if you think of it from the perspective of the neighbors. Of course, kids should always be trying to throw them, and cops and narcs should always be trying to shut them down. It's the natural order of the world:)
- guard-of-terra 14y agoDid neighbors complain? No they didn't, or the police would not need their lame social networks act.
- pessimizer 14y agoNot yet, but it might be illegal because they're charging for a show without being licensed, or a myriad of other reasons. There have always been narcs, though. The kids may find @notpolice funny because of their experiences online, but in the 90s I ran into that guy a lot on the street.
- guard-of-terra 14y ago"it might be illegal because they're charging for a show without being licensed, or a myriad of other reasons" That's exactly what's the "worse than USSR" part is about.
- pessimizer 14y agoWhat I'm saying is if that makes the US worse than the USSR, then the US was always worse than the USSR. If the legality of urban house shows is your key metric for freedom, then maybe reconsider using the USSR as your baseline.
- guard-of-terra 14y agoI highly value legality of doing anything not immediately life threatening in my house because it's my last line of defense. Last line of privacy. Even if you take the street, the workplace and the indoors away (by the means of tight and hostile control) your home is still your home. And if you gave up your home as a step one you will not have a place to fall back, a place to default to. You can no longer say "Screw you guys I'm going home". Now all your life depends on others (authorities) agreeing to let you do whatever you are doing, because you don't have one place where you are that authority.
- gambiting 14y agoI totally agree. I come from a country which used to be one of the Soviet republics and remained communist for almost 50 years, and really,the communist government could never pull some shit the US is doing right now. And they say that have "freedom".....yeahhhh sure.
- triplesec 14y agowow... love some examples and comparisons to help us see this better!
- saraid216 14y ago> (Don't know why, maybe it's actually illegal for police to enter your home, maybe it's just decency) Because no one really cares about the noise?
- guard-of-terra 14y agoIf someone would complain about the noise, police will materialize. Therefore they did those gigs during the daytime or kept them acoustic.