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Neoliberalism stole my virginity*? On being a teenager musician in the Nineties, Blind Melon and the future we lost

Neoliberalism stole my virginity*? On being a teenager musician in the Nineties, Blind Melon and the future we lost

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Too many subjects in just one post? Probably. As obvious as it may sound, I do not even know where to start. But, since we seem to live in an emotional capitalism, let’s start this way: about a feeling: being a teenager and playing in a band in the Nineties. I grew up in a small town in northern Italy, I started playing drums when I was 14 in a band with some friends, we believed in it, we did…

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Back in Bologna
So… how is it to get back to “normal” life?

So… how is it to get back to “normal” life?

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Long time no writing, we know. But the first three weeks back in Europe were a kind of friendly limbo for us: time spent in Faenza and in Bologna, families, friends, dinners and drinking, lots of train rides, washing and unpacking, just a bike ride (but hey, the Apennines are beautiful mountains, we almost forgot that!). That was not “normal” life, of course: no work, not in our flat, much needed time to catch up with what happened while we…

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