Coming to you from my newish
#selfHosted #Pleroma instance after a couple years on
#Mastodon. I was a middle class
#musician back when that was a thing, trained as a
#drummer and, since I was 13, I put all my dedication and dollars into making an honest, modest living as a sideman. I grew up listening to
#classicRock from half a generation earlier, and played lots of
#blues in my hometown,
#Chicago, before I became a
#jazz snob and got my 1st steady gig with a cruiseship showband.
I ended up in
#LosAngeles just in time for the Great Depression and subsequent triumph of
#Socialism for the Rich™, which I thought was as bad as it could get until they passed the CARES act. I retrained myself at the
#piano when club gigs no longer paid enough for me to hire a bassist and piano player to accompany me in playing my earliest efforts at
#songwriting. My
#radicalism was firmly established by the time the DNC cheated Bernie out of the nomination. The 1st time, I mean. 2020 finished the job. I don't know what I am now, a
#progressive, an
#anarchosyndicalist, or what. I just know I'm not a Democrat and find the
#BizarroWorld direction of many calling themselves
#liberal to be absolutely terrrifying, as we already have one intolerant and sociopathic "opposition".
I am content to identify with my
#outsider artist influences like
#TomWaits and
#WarrenZevon, general
#geeks like
#JoeJackson, and the
#workingClass works of
#BobDylan,
#NeilYoung, and
#BruceSpringsteen.
I've almost entirely freed myself of the dependence on proprietary platforms and use and support several
#openSource projects.
#Owncast and
#OBS have made it possible for me to keep my
#music #livestream alive after sacrificing roughly 75% of my viewers when I left FB for labelling my
#artist page a source of
#misinformation.
#FreeSpeech and fighting
#citizensUnited,
#corporatism, and
#censorship and
#propaganda are my primary political concerns.
I'm a fairly accomplished amateur at
#cooking and I love
#tobacco after discovering
#pipesmoking and
#cigars and quitting a 30-year cigarette habit. I drink
#beer and
#scotch throughout the weekly livestream, which you can follow for a notification when I go live at
@kyle Saving the most important thing for last, I generally love people and I am much, much more fun and easy going than this introduction makes me sound lol