The World Beyond BetterMost > The Culture Tent
In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 27, 2021, 06:00:04 pm ---Wow, did we ever think we'd be paying for and going to Rolling Stones concerts in the year 20-flipping-21?
--- End quote ---
And if we're surprised, imagine how they feel! Mick Jagger's famous quote is that he couldn't see himself singing "Satistaction" in his 40s. :laugh:
--- Quote --- Paul McCartney calls the RS a "blues cover band" in the Oct. 18 issue. Old grudges die hard.
--- End quote ---
That's pretty snarky, ignoring their immense catalog of good songs they wrote. However, the Rolling Stones might find it slightly flattering given that the band sprang from Mick and Keith's shared deep interest in American blues, and they have in fact done a number of covers or penned their own blues songs. The two knew each other in kindergarten then reunited on a train when one or the other got on holding a big stack of Chess records and they discovered they were both really into them. In interviews and things, they always speak of old blues players with the deepest respect. In fact, Keith was less concerned about the Stones being "too old" to play their music because look at all the guys like Muddy Waters, BB King, Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, etc., playing well into old age.
I think those were influences on the Beatles, too, though they leaned a bit more Beach Boys. Whom I didn't like back in the day but have since come to respect -- Bill Pohlad's "Love and Mercy" deserves lot of credit. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it.
BTW, I just did a quick google to see if I was missing a recording studio in Mississippi and found there's something called the Mississippi Blues Trail stretching alongside the Mississippi on Hwy 61 from New Orleans to Minneapolis through the Mississippi Delta. I've taken that route before, since I moved from one city to the other, but not since the official Missippi Blues Trail with interpretive signs was designated. That would be a fun road trip! Many significant locations in addition to the Delta -- Hannibal, MO, Memphis, etc. Good BBQ, too!
--- Quote ---On another subject the magazine has just made its Festival online interviews free to subscribers. I will try to carve hatchet out time to watch.
--- End quote ---
That sounds intriguing! Do you access on their site?
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on October 28, 2021, 11:41:51 am ---Shteyngart is the one who wrote the painful-to-read article about his adult circumcision in the October 11 issue.
--- End quote ---
I like Gary Shteyngart but I couldn't bring myself to read that one.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 28, 2021, 02:21:38 pm ---I like Gary Shteyngart but I couldn't bring myself to read that one.
--- End quote ---
No way for Jack to get it right with his old man when Jack saw he had some extra material that Jack was missin'. 8)
Jeff Wrangler:
I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
Over lunch today I read Paul McCartney on "Eleanor Rigby" (Oct. 25). Then I came to the "Correction of the Week" at the end of the article, on page 24, and read, "Also, the author of 'Dracula' was incorrect. He is Bram Stoker, not Jane Austen."
Now there is a topic for a "Shouts and Murmurs": Dracula as if it had been written by Jane Austen. ;D
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 29, 2021, 09:53:09 pm ---I nearly fell off my chair laughing.
Now there is a topic for a "Shouts and Murmurs": Dracula as if it had been written by Jane Austen. ;D
--- End quote ---
Or, Sense & Sensibility as if it had been written by Bram Stoker!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on October 29, 2021, 09:53:09 pm ---
Now there is a topic for a "Shouts and Murmurs": Dracula as if it had been written by Jane Austen. ;D
--- End quote ---
A few people were doing that on Facebook. Mine was "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a vampire in possession of sharp fangs must be in want of a neck."
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version