That would be a good name for a band, wouldn’t it? Or, Neil and the Incas. I was going to write a post about how some of the lyrics in Neil Young’s song “Cortez the Killer” always bothered me a bit in their historical inaccuracy. But, a search of the Internet reveals that someone else…
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The Beatles vs. Kiss?
In about 6th grade, one of the classes I was in divided itself into Beatles fans vs. Kiss fans. One had to choose which band they liked better – and the class was pretty evenly divided (this was about 1978 or 1979 after all – the height of Kiss’s popularity). I liked Kiss, but didn’t…
Hippie menu
I’m currently reading “Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960’s”, by Stuart Henderson (Yorkville was Canada’s Haight-Ashbury). In the book is a photo of this entertaining 1968 menu from The Penny Farthing, a long since extinct coffeehouse:
R.E.M. in the 80’s
R.E.M. in the 1980’s had an aura of mystery. The impenetrable lyrics, the jangly guitar-based sound, which harkened back to the days of The Byrds and beyond. The album cover art – kudzu covered railway bridges, gargoyles, folk art collages. The famous fact that each band member wanted their playing/singing mixed lower than the rest…
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