Well here I am thinking that a mother lode just meant a lotta stuff kept somewhere, and simultaneously surprised that you aren’t familiar with South Sudanese-born artist “Bangs” and that you didn’t catch on to “matrix” as a reference to Africa being the developmental environment for Black music [but were keen to pick up on the aforementioned mother lode gaffe that short circuited our little game of language surrounding the origins of Black culture].

Explaining a joke or a wry remark is about as deflating as either fallen flat. So you’ll have to pick up on the grander point that I was trying to make by yourself.

Suffices to say that you’ve managed to do that already anyhow in a manner far more sophisticated than my own.

I had a great time, you?

I'm good - I enjoy a rambling conversation nominally centred about <something>

Mother lode comes from mining, the real or imagined source of tiny nuggets found washed further downstream (by current or ancient no longer present water flows). In that sense, to which I'm a little wedded by practice, they don't move about, at least not until mined dry and relocated to some treasury or rich persons pocket.

Bangs and matrix are overloaded, it's hard keeping up with what others mean in their use of terms, Gammon in the UK has a meaning different to it's use by urban aboriginal people in Australia.

For some the origins of local Black Culture have little remnant of African culture and predate both the arrival of convict ships upon the tide and the retreat of ice from Europe that allowed the settlement of the extremely white bits.

Great party hats though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwion_Gwion_rock_paintings

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RIP Kumanjayi Mowaljarlai - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw-AgvUEVm4