[NewMusic] Music scenes

[Michael Zelner]

While here in Austin for a few days, I noticed this bit in an interview with Ian McLagan (keyboardist with Faces, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, etc.) in a free bmonthly music newspaper:

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AUSTIN DAZE: Why did you choose to be in Austin?

IAN MCLAGAN: To be honest with you I didn’t choose Austin so much as I was choosing not to be in Los Angeles any longer. My wife and I had been there sixteen years and I was on the road a lot of the time and she was stuck there while I was on the road and she didn’t like it any more than I did, but I was hardly there as much as she was. One day she called me, I was on the road, it was a Sunday, and she said, “I just heard gun shots and I could smell the gun powder.” I said, “That’s no good.” And then the earthquake in ‘94 happened and they said that was the big one that we had all been waiting for to relieve the pressure. And the next day they said that wasn’t the big one. And we just said, “That’s it.” We left the next month to come here. And you ask why here? Well it has to be a music town and LA really wasn’t a music town. It’s good for recording but not for live music. There’s no overall friendly music scene. New York: too expensive; music sc
ene, but too expensive, Chicago: too cold, Boston: much too cold, Seattle: music scene but English weather, San Francisco: earthquakes. Nashville? No f**king way. No music scene; no restaurants. Memphis: great city but you know. Miami: no f**king way. No music scene; temperature, all the same. So it was obviously Austin.

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From:
<http://austindaze.com/?p=236>

MZ