reelecteddie:

Recent tour diary of Dean Wareham (Galaxie 500, Luna):

From the stage tonight I notice three different people crying as I sing “Blue Thunder,” which is a song about the power-steering action in my old 1975 Dodge Dart and doesn’t quite seem worth crying about, though admittedly it is also a songabout being alone behind the wheel, and I wail about driving “so far away,” so maybe that’s what did it.  

Other performers are not so glib talking about how fans interact with their work, but Dean Wareham is enough of a jerk not to mind.

This is fascinating, and something I was thinking about last night (ie. when fans relationship to a work is totally baffling to the artist)