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i don't want to do something that there's a lot of other people are doing
to me and i don't want to have a website
and so you know this idea just kind of came out of
trying to figure out something different; really at the time nobody
was
doing anything near what what we started doing here
the whole principle of the website was to
get people coming through town that weren't
staying in town to play a show; they were just sort of passing
between. usually at the beginning it was iowa city and chicago. spend
an hour and a half or two hours here to record four songs live to two-track,
quarter-inch tape
and then
master those things, put them on the website for people to listen to and download
we have hand-drawn illustration of the bands
i'd write a little essay about them
and that was it, that was basically the idea and
that's the idea is that still exists today
iowa city was that place where I really got into music
it wasn't like i had this
widespread sort of like musical background or knowledge in me and uh...
i didn't start learning to play guitar until i went to iowa, you know
i didn't really buy many
records until i went to iowa; it was really getting into iowa city and
then having
the kind of places like the record collector, having access to like a place
like gabe's and
concerts that were happening; i mean, iowa city shaped me
more than anything else because it was like
i can't think of how many
times i was at gabe's
it was me and the bartenders there for
some band that i had heard about
nobody else knew they were i mean there there's so many like instances of that
you kinda felt like you wereи
you weren't doing something to be different but
nobody else is here--how come nobody else knows about the stuff?
just that little idea
shaped a lot of what kind of work
we've tried to do with daytrotter. why aren't more people listening to
these people?
i think a lot of people have similar experiences when they
go to college and i like that, where suddenly you really discover what you
like and what you're good at