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1 year ago

in Go Moan for Man, Jack Kerouac on newcritics
Man, that Kerouac/Allen clip is quite a find. Watching that made my evening.

Call me pre-ironic, but I loved "On The Road"- and I didn't get around to reading it until a couple of years ago. I'll take the beat generation over today's cynical, hipper-than-hip fashion slaves. In Kerouac's day, if you weren't part of the "American Dream" you were truly an outcast. Watch "The Wild Ones" and you'll see that what back then was considered a shocking outlaw threat to polite society was nothing more than people who just wanted to be their own self & not a cookie-cutter consumer.

Thanks Jason, and thanks Jack- and thank you Mrs. Cagilicudy, wherever you are (sp?)

1 year ago

in Led Zeppelin To Do A Benefit Show on newcritics
Hmmm...that doesn't seem to jive with my recollections. I saw Led Zep 2 times (70, 73) and I was astonished by Page's clean playing. I remember watching him play "naked" (working with just bass & drums- no keyboard or another guitar to help take off some of the pressure)and wondering when he was going to toss a clam. If he did I missed it- and I had been playing guitar in public for a good while by then, so I was watching closely. My hands hurt just watching him play so consistently for what were very long sets.

But that's just me.
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