Submitted by jgervasi on
I heard that some veterans of the early '80s Philly hardcore scene thought that Friday's program should have focused more on that era. I'm somehow not surprised to hear this. When this information was passed on to me (none of these folks directly addressed me), I replied: "The program, like the audio interview series, was meant to illustrate a continuum. The viewer (like the listener) would see a timeline from the then to the now and see what changed and what remained the same. It was not meant to be an early '80s nostalgia show. I could have assembled only or mostly footage from that era, but I purposely elected not to. That's why the audience was so mixed and why the shows have been well-attended." I like to think that a vital subculture remains active and doesn't gaze, like a balding and chubby queen in the Snow White story, into a mirror asking, "Who was fairest of them all?"