While watching the Big Star Quintet perform in Los Angeles last night, it struck me that Big Star’s output has held up better to me than any other guitar based music of the pre-punk era.
Lovely stuff. I’ve been reading a lot about Big Star on Substack and have not grown up with them but come to them as a middle-aged man - and it still works. Since a young age I’ve been into the excellent Scottish band, Teenage Fanclub. I’ve subsequently found out that when they were young, Scotland had a Big Star ‘craze’ and it heavily influenced them. It all makes sense now. Thanks.
Lovely stuff. I’ve been reading a lot about Big Star on Substack and have not grown up with them but come to them as a middle-aged man - and it still works. Since a young age I’ve been into the excellent Scottish band, Teenage Fanclub. I’ve subsequently found out that when they were young, Scotland had a Big Star ‘craze’ and it heavily influenced them. It all makes sense now. Thanks.
Meeting Alex Chilton was scary!