{"id":376,"date":"2006-06-09T22:24:55","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T02:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/06\/09\/even-old-music-geezers-are-blogging-now\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T22:24:55","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T02:24:55","slug":"even-old-music-geezers-are-blogging-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/06\/09\/even-old-music-geezers-are-blogging-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Even old music geezers are blogging now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, you know that blogging is getting pretty advanced when even old geezers like Pete Townsend of The Who are doing it. I came across a post<\/a> on Fred Wilson’s blog a little while ago (Fred is a venture capitalist, but he spends most of his time writing about music) that mentioned his friend Tom Watson got a comment<\/a> on his blog from Pete, the legendary lead guitarist for The Who.<\/p>\n

Pete, in turn, was moved to comment on Tom’s blog because Tom was the first to post a comment on the rock icon’s recently revived blog The Boy Who Heard Music<\/a>. As Pete noted in the post restarting the blog:<\/p>\n

“If you visit my website at wwww.petetownshend.com and check out my diaries you will see that I am posting items about the good and bad things going on around me at such a busy time, and I mention the fact that a lot of people have tried to reach out to me. Hopefully this Blog will provide a way for that to happen.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pete isn’t the only music legend blogging either. Another one I came across recently was Thomas Dolby<\/a>, the electronic music pioneer whose iconic song She Blinded Me With Science is still a favourite of mine. In true blogosphere style, he wasn’t blogging for more than a few weeks before he got into a spat<\/a> with Kevin Federline (Mr. Britney Spears) over a sample of Dolby’s that the alleged musician used in a song without credit.<\/p>\n

And that’s not all — there’s Bob Mould<\/a> from Husker Du, artistic Renaissance man David “Talking Heads” Byrne<\/a>, Rivers Cuomo from Weezer<\/a>, and of course, Canada’s own Barenaked Ladies.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Well, you know that blogging is getting pretty advanced when even old geezers like Pete Townsend of The Who are doing it. I came across a post on Fred Wilson’s blog a little while ago (Fred is a venture capitalist, but he spends most of his time writing about music) that mentioned his friend Tom … <\/p>\n

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