Posted in 3283, 3282, 3279, 3278, 3285, 3288, 3294, 3291, 3290, 2860, 2970, the, my, brian, today, i, 2735, 2879, a, General on Feb 14th, 2008 Comments Off
Interesting two days, in this respect anyway: I did a presentation on Brian Wilson for Elderstudy yesterday, then explored “I Get Around” all the way through “Caroline No” for my Rock/Soul/Progressive class today. From senior citizens (I really don’t like that term much) to 18-19 year-olds. Brian spoke to all of them. This of course […]
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Posted in 3179, 3178, 3177, 3176, 3180, 3181, 3185, 3184, 3183, 3182, 3175, 3174, 2735, a, and, the, 2970, 2985, 3111, 3045, 2986, General on Feb 6th, 2008 Comments Off
I’ll share this bit of the story–more to come.
My Rock/Soul/Progressive class just finished James Miller’s Flowers in the Dustbin. At our last meeting, I decided we’d use what Miller says about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as a test case for a) evaluating the idealism and folly of the Sixties, b) evaluating Miller’s take […]
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Prepping for the Rock/Soul/Progressive class tomorrow, and these words in James Miller’s Flowers in the Dustbin once again got my attention:
Meanwhile, most of my friends (discounting those who have continued to make their living by writing about, or recording, popular music) long ago stopped listening to rock. As they settle into middle age, their old […]
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