Had Wilson done his time on a submarine instead of in a frat house and declared these words, he would've been branded a traitor by the lesbigay left for exposing the dirty truth that the rest of us already knew. I gnorance must be bliss in Erickson's world, because he totally misses the point of the swing revival. I have been dancing swing now for about 10 years, and it is not about some drunken fool with a martini. It is about people of all ages coming together to have fun. The real swing movement is not found in some bar with a postage stamp dance floor.
Swing is about how dancers and musicians interact and feed off one another.
And swing occurs mostly in gyms or church rec halls, where the strongest stuff served is a can of Coca-Cola. As a contemporary of Erickson who has experienced the tremendous amount of atonal crap that has passed for popular music during the past 20 years, I welcome a form of music that packs some rhythmic punch. Will Halverson T hanks to Steve Erickson, who has nailed the swing renaissance for the counter-human fraud it is. All rights reserved.