CANNIBAL CORPSE’s PAUL MAZURKIEWICZ Discusses The Mystique Of Pre-Social Media Days

The day of pre-social media meant studying magazines and digging via the liner notes to seek out out about your favourite bands. After which possibly, simply possibly, you will get to see ’em stay and have a fast chat. Now you will discover out what their drummer ate for lunch and what they give thought to present affairs in about three seconds, touch upon it, and possibly begin an argument.

Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz not too long ago dove into the subject in an interview with the Nothing Surprising podcast, saying his emotions on the matter are a bit of difficult. On one hand, Mazurkiewicz actually appreciates the connectivity with followers and having the ability to discover out extra about nice bands, however however is aware of that social media could be a little bit of a ruiner for some issues.

“It is a robust one. It’s a robust one, as a result of, clearly, I like what the Web and expertise has introduced us, the place you’ve got acquired all the things at your fingertips, bands having the ability to take action a lot and know a lot. It’s cool, however I suppose my old-school mentality or being from the technology previous to that, you type of do miss the mystique of the previous days the place you did not know a lot about bands and also you needed to get your data from going to purchase {a magazine}, what little data you probably did get from that or what have you ever, or it is word-of-mouth type of stuff. So I type of miss the previous mystique of the steel again within the previous days like that due to not understanding and never having all the things at your fingertips.

“It is a robust one, as a result of however, it is good to remain linked with the followers and so many individuals can… We would not be doing this proper now if it wasn’t for that expertise. So it is a robust one. However I must say, simply wanting again at how I grew up and all this, it had that sure mystique. Now possibly once I was youthful, I’d have appreciated it to be like it’s now, as a result of you may assume again, what I’d have recognized or might have recognized or this and that, which you do not know any higher since you simply do not even consider that, in fact, when that is all developing sooner or later and also you’re simply dwelling within the now.

“However I look again at how I grew up, and it was enjoyable going to report shops and discovering new bands that means and that is how you bought into numerous the bands, or studying about ’em in {a magazine}. If not, you’d go right into a report retailer and go, ‘Oh, have a look at this report. Wow. That appears cool. Let’s put it on. Wow. That is superior.’ And that is the way you came upon new music and the way you bought into bands. Now, in fact, who’s gonna do this? It is by no means gonna occur. So I miss that mystique and that means of the way it was. However that is a factor of the previous, I suppose. I suppose I am simply glad to be part of that.”

“I all the time inform folks I am simply glad… I acquired fortunate, I suppose. Everybody’s gotta be born once they’re born and I simply occurred to be born in that complete transitional period with steel… Being a youngster proper then at the moment within the early ’80s after which rising with the music and the altering of the scene day by day. Look how a lot change occurred within the steel scene from ’80 to ’90. It is unbelievable. Or from ’82 to ’85, or ’85 to ’88. And we have been part of that as a hungry teenager that is not even positive what… You are moving into your bands and never even positive what you are absolutely into but, since you’re nonetheless getting molded and all.

“So I really feel very fortunate that I am a part of all that and having these transitions and being part of the motion, so to say. It was an important period to be rising up in. And if it wasn’t for that, Cannibal would not be what they’re, and clearly I would not be the drummer I’m and the musician I’m. So all the things occurred for a cause and that is the way in which it goes. However, yeah, thrilling occasions. Positively.”