Tag Archives: chuck berry

the hindsight saga

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Dave

It was one of Lenin’s more inspired insights that history always has the capacity to surprise. He was thinking mainly of political revolution, for as a revolutionary he had to be optimistic and hopeful in the darkest times in order … Continue reading →

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before good fun became a commodity

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Dave

before the big corporate money began pouring its cold soul into popular music culture…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Before there was Rolling Stone magazine, before we had ‘rock critics’, before we had ‘genres’ of rock music, there was only radio. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Beach Boys, boyd grafmyre, buffalo springfield, Captain Beefheart, chuck berry, dean batchelor, dick curtiss, ike and tina turner, Jimi Hendrix, pat o'day, righteous brothers, Rolling Stone, seattle pop festival, teen fairs los angeles, the Animals, The Doors | Leave a comment

dionysus: an ecstatic death with a directed soul

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Dave

So now, as always, Dionysus shows himself in his traditional forms- alluring,pansexual; madness reigns, an urge to dance comes over people, a trance inducing beat can be heard from the mountains, and the wine is uncorked. But if Dionysus is … Continue reading →

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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Dave

Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading →