Dave Lee Roth, 1979
"an almost savage torpor", or, plus ca change
Wordsworth, from the Prelude to the Lyrical Ballads, written and published in 1800 The Seventeenth Century is barely over and here is Will...
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Someone recentl y asked Greil Marcus why "sixties and seventies rock crits hate prog so much?" "Why do people hate prog roc...
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Sterling Morrison, quoted in Rob Sheffield's Beatles book I'm guessing the VU hated the Mothers ever since that period when the latt... -
love to listen to this stuff but I'm not sure I really understand it beyond "that's a bunch of cool weird noises in a pattern...
I would suggest it's actually a lot of the reason he's in rock'n'roll, if we're being perfectly honest.
ReplyDeleteDiamond Dave became a paramedic. Did he discover his disavowed responsibility, and is that the most incongruous career change in music?
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that! That is a bizarre fact about him... although by the sounds of it he was a bit of a dilettante at that, too: he didn't exactly make it his life from then on.
DeleteStill, it's a good lesson in never writing people off.
The most incongruous career change in music? The guitar player from alt-rock journeymen Blind Melon who became a lawyer at a big Philadelphia firm must be high up there. But surely the winner is that bloke from Blur who became a cheesemaker.
There´s also a porn superstar (Real famous but cant remember the name) who became a paramedic, for the Most Incongrous People Becominging Paramedics list
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