Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
To Harry:
It's hard to get whimsical about (let's just call it what it is, come what may) "noodling" if you aren't 16 and knee-deep in pseudo-revolution. But I, for one, can imagine such a thing happening, and it gives me pause for consideration. I am quite certain I'll have to defend my highschool soundtrack in much the same fashion in the not too distant future.
Thanks very much for your thoughts. An irony, perhaps, is that quite often I thought the Dead... as opposed to the Grateful Dead...sucked. Truly Bobby can't play worth shit. Ratdog needs to die.
I wish I could communicate the power of the zeigeist. That the revolution underneath was pseudo... well, I guess that's indisputable. But the streets of Paris filled, UNAM was taken, fences were jumped at Columbia... it wasn't just white college students of the middle class... in fact it was people of color, the dispossed, finally coming into the Academy and demanding a different world...
We take so much for granted now, and we can't scan what really happened last century. Smelly hippies were the hip-hop of that epoch... but it felt like something deeper was happening. There was a hole in the line, we had the ball, it seemed liked we could run to daylight.
And a soundtrack of profound power accompanied the silly movie....
