innerviews_unhinged_duality frAnk describe, please, the difference between playing classical music and pursuing indie rock, i.e. mozart vs. ivet. 030523 ... unhinged hey frAnk, it's been awhile my friend. my last few months in youngstown left me in the hospital with no time to think about anything but finally getting out. i graduated last week summa cum laude with an honors degree. in about a month i'm off to milwaukee. but, back to my innerview. i think my duality in music has to do with how i grew up. i grew up listening to oldies, harry chapin, anything but mozart. the common profession in my family is a medical one; my dad is a paramedic, my sister is a nurse, and my other sister is a physical therapist. although, my great grandpa on my mom's side played the violin and so did my mom and a great uncle on my dad's side. but i grew up listening to r&b from the sixties and seventies, janis and bob and the beatles. and harry chapin; he was probably one of the most important ones. he died the year i was born in a car accident but my dad always talked about him and sang songs to me when i had nightmares. we had a big autographed picture of him hanging on our family photo wall in the staircase in our house in parma. when i was in the fourth grade, i found out about the violin. little did i know my mom played one and had one; i always wanted to play the flute until that day. as the years went by, i started to get more and more into the violin but i also started to discover pearl jam and the smashing_pumpkins and all those other alternative bands of the early 90s. my musical life in youngstown definitely held a duality that one of my studiomates brought up not too long ago. music is an emotional release for me. whether it was death and transfiguration or alligator it meant the same thing to me. a chance to release pent up things that i couldn't talk about. but, i haven't been to a good rock show in awhile. i haven't heard ivet play out since like september. i'm hoping to hear them one more time before i move because they have a show this friday at a big venue in cleveland because mike has been producing this pretty well known regional band mushroomhead. not my type of music by a long stretch: death metal sends me into convulsions, but if i have to suffer through any amount of that to hear my boys one last time i will. now that i'm gone, i think about youngstown a lot. what it did to me. and i think stronger than ever that the reason ivet spoke to me so strongly was because it hit the exact misery that so many people in youngstown including me felt there. the two musics that are youngstown for me: brahms and ivet i hear there's a big scene up in milwaukee and one of the other graduate violinists is already all about it. i might have to check it out. i also hear from my friend from youngstown up there that also liked ivet that there are several clubs that want to book them and if they ever release the third album it would probably be a good idea to go west this time. not to mention that chicago's only a little jaunt down the road. i wonder sometimes if i couldn't have a good career as a promoter. 030524 what's it to you? who go blather from