I’ve been thinking about this blog for a long time.

I write a lot. I listen to more music than almost anyone I know. I love live music. But when I go out nowadays, I wish I hadn’t. Bands I loved seem to play like they are covering themselves. I mean, what the fuck is the deal with 50-year-olds playing records they made in 1981? It ain’t there; let it go. And new bands don’t know how to get my attention without ProTools fixing their shit or something like that (so my friends tell me). They play like the members don’t even know each other. And no one has fun. I think they just don’t have it hard enough.

And the horrible sound systems of clubs finally got around to bothering me. It isn’t enough to have an infuriating racket that makes me mad enough to dance in a circle running into people. That hasn’t been respectable since 1986. Well, actually, it wasn’t respectable then. And I just want to sit down anyway.

Worst of all, people go to shows, which means that I have to interact with people. And people seem to be getting worse. Or is it just me?

GTNSU will be a live music blog that documents all of the shows that I don’t go see, complete with documentation of what I did instead. I’m kind of known for talking a big game about going to see certain shows, and then not really going. “Guaranteed to not show up” is pretty self-descriptive, really (thanks, Greg). Plus, as an old has-been band dude and a guy who “worked at a label” in some capacity, I’m constantly bothered by people to go to their shows, and I’d like to blog their annoying importuning blather and then blog why I didn’t go.

Sometimes, shows will inspire me to talk about shows I HAVE seen. When that happens, I’ll pimp some old band, and break the law by uploading their entire RIAA protected catalog.

On the 5 days a year that I see a show, I’ll report that I took the day off.

On the days a year that I perform, I’ll blog the support acts that I blow off.

On the days I promise people I’ll go to their birthday parties or baby showers or funerals, I’ll blog why I decided not to go at the last minute.

It won’t be pretty.

But look on the bright side:

Me not going to your show could be the best (and only) press you get.

Enjoy,

Scott

P.S. Should you want to know what my computer is playing at any time, just look here:

And if you want to know what it has been playing all these months, just follow this link. It ain’t a pretty sight.