Miles Davis boyhood home vandalised

[Chuck Nessa]

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[Free For All]

What is it with young people and the need to be destructive?

I hear students complain about tuition and education costs, and then I see a bunch of vandalism on campus (usually after a weekend).

I don't get it. Yes, I too was young once and did some stupid shit, but I never saw a need for destroying other people's property.

[JSngry]

People who feel no ownership of a society see no need to maintain it. Couple a pretty much "no future" future (perceived or otherwise) with a "don't have to pay for anything" technology culture and...there you go.

Get snakes, I say.

[AllenLowe]

I think it was Crouch and Wynton -

[Hot Ptah]

It could be that the people who tore the house up did it to sell the materials. That happens in Kansas City a lot. Anything made of a metal which can be sold, and which is not locked up or guarded, is likely to be physically ripped off of a building, bridge, utility installation, anything.

[Ed S]

So I log on today and check out the recently added topics. At the top of the list is this one:

Miles Davis boyhood home vandalised by Chuck Nessa

Today, 02:14 PM

Had to do a double take and realize that this was a topic - posted by Chuck. Pretty funny - at least to me.

All that said, this sucks

[Quincy]

It could be that the people who tore the house up did it to sell the materials. That happens in Kansas City a lot. Anything made of a metal which can be sold, and which is not locked up or guarded, is likely to be physically ripped off of a building, bridge, utility installation, anything.

Yup, the article says aluminum siding and pipes (guessing copper) so I'm guessing that it's for the materials to resell. Also East St. Louis isn't exactly a prosperous place. This is a big problem in Oregon and many other places. I believe in the UK a sculpture that weighed close to a ton was stolen presumably for scrap value.

[sidewinder]

I believe in the UK a sculpture that weighed close to a ton was stolen presumably for scrap value.

Some of these A-holes even take the copper cabling used for signaling trains, from the side of railway tracks. No sense of values whatsoever.

[Jazzmoose]

Yeah, but once in awhile, they'll try to steal live power cables, which is always good for a laugh...

[ejp626]

I don't want to look like I am soft on vandalism or anything, but what are they supposed to do with this house? I can sort of see preserving the house where an adult artist/writer/musician lived, though honestly for a musician, I would imagine most of the "art" happened elsewhere, with perhaps a lot of practicing at the home itself. But who is going to travel to East St. Louis to look at this boyhood "shrine"? And why should this house matter more than the one in Alton, Ill.? Or the various apartments that Miles might have lived in NYC?

Do we identify 10 or 20 great jazz musicians and preserve one residence from each?

I guess I am just cranky today and am thinking how much we (specifically jazz fans) are stuck in the past anyway. I do think there is something to be learned from visiting an artist's studio, but with writers what matters is where they actually wrote (so going to Joyce's apartment is a waste of time -- he wrote in cafes) and with musicians, what matters is the clubs at which they played. Their homes are entirely secondary. At least that's my take.

[LWayne]

Maybe they were searching for the "Bootleg Series", Volume 2?...

LWayne

Edited September 21, 2011 by LWayne

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Maybe they were searching for the "Bootleg Series", Volume 2?...

LWayne

When's that coming out anyway? Can't happen soon enough.