May 092007
Though both of these are videos of very famous rock and roll combos from the 1960s, *they are not the same!* See how many differences you can spot in 90 seconds:
fig. 1
fig. 2
Though both of these are videos of very famous rock and roll combos from the 1960s, *they are not the same!* See how many differences you can spot in 90 seconds:
fig. 1
fig. 2
The first thing that strikes me is the Hobson’s Choice of spoiled, superficially overeducated hangers on dancing poorly versus lower middle class, undereducated goofballs dancing spastically. Slight nod to the latter group in terms of style and desire, but my sympathies and empathy rest with Sweet Lou stuck in the middle of the nightmare scene.
If life were a Photoshop file I would delete the Gerard Malanga layer. Thankfully he is missing from fig. 2.
Can we also delete the Edie Sedgwick layer? Ugh!
I wonder if Lou, after having seen the Freddie clip and having lived through his own clip, sat down and cranked out “Men of Good Fortune”.
what’s a “pingback”?
sally puts on the pince nez: it’s a signal for when a website is checking for a link… think of it like a boomerang… it’s going from point A to point B and then coming back at you –
Um, in Fig. 2 everyone has the song that’s actually playing in their heads and in Fig. 1 everyone’s thinking about a different song than they’re hearing?
I don’t know what this thread’s “sponsor” would say, but good one, Rick!