I Love Nostalgia, Yet The Future Is Still More Exciting
Realizing nostalgia is the new doom scroll after this latest podcast with Colin McCann from Don Martin Three and Vulture Feather.
I’m just as excited about something in the past as I am about their future.
There’s this lust and especially on my part of remembering the forgotten sounds, eras, and bands from the 90s. This week on the podcast, I had on Colin McCann from Don Martin Three. A short lived post-hardcore/emo band from Florida that was around from 1993-96. I never got to see the band back then but heard about their sound and over the years assembled their discography. Colin reached out directly as he’d heard some other episodes and we got together to talk a few months ago. From a historical perspective this was huge for me as Colin hadn’t done many interviews and the music isn’t available on streaming services. It’s on YouTube and the various download sides but not for the masses. Don Martin Three should be talked about next to Moss Icon, Policy of Three, and others from that time. It’s that important and right now, it’s not available. That part of nostalgia and the past gets me up in the morning.
Yet, that wasn’t the whole story of this podcast.
He also shared his new band, Vulture Feather, with me prior to our interview. I was immediately floored by it and was even more excited to talk to him. As I mentioned in the last newsletter, this album is my favorite of the month and possibly the year. Take a minute to listen…
There’s this need for to remember the past. Yet after talking to Colin, hearing his story, his life really expanded what I thought this interview was going to be. I got chills. Outside of the usual fuzzy memories of the shows and tours from Don Martin Three, his mind cleared as we talked about his new project Vulture Feather in the 2nd half. This was a rebirth. It’s almost as if someone was finally comfortable to talk about their past, open up about their mistakes, then pour that into a new music project. This isn’t new but for someone that stepped away for years, worked on themselves, then pushed out something more impactful, it felt the same.
I repeatedly mention on the podcast about having to be there to talk about it. I will continue to feel that until told otherwise. A time undocumented is hard to read from a historian that just read books or zines about it. I’d rather talk to an explorer tell poorly told stories than a perfectly bound book of quotes perfected for the masses to shower them with praise.
Colin was at peace. He was happy. He was talking to me on a flip phone that barely got service in the mountains of Northern California. He was free from distraction and looking forward with music, his partner, and at peace with his past. The conversation felt safe and I instantly knew it was time to shut up and let someone tell their story with light direction and questions. Listening to someone evolve, while invested in their story, their life was so enjoyable regardless of the outcome of you listening to Don Martin Three or taking a minute to listen to Vulture Feather. It’s ok for me.
I am just happy Colin chose to tell his story for a time and band and musician few speak about. I have always enjoying the ride up for a musician. It’s more fun and rewarding. You don’t just enjoy them when they’re winning the game or writing the best story. But when they had trouble with kids or issues with their life and learned from it and talked about it from a root of having to tell their story, not a perfectly timed article in an online trade magazine or video interview.
Nostalgia may be the thing, I'm enjoying every day forward almost as much.
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