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by Art Chantry: a rare publicity still from the ill-fated and aborted, but legendary cinema classic “Godzilla vs. The Beatles.” sadly, only a few pull-frames like this still remain to give us some idea of what may have been truly … Continue reading
when they were fab
The optical unconscious.The truth shoppers would have to parse through all the footage to strip away the false consciousness maintained under the neo-liberal economic model with regard to video and film. Cult values and elements of the ritual predominate and … Continue reading
won’t get fooled again:NOT a sampler but a sampling
It was a lot of money back then, and sampling has evolved to become a lucrative promotional vehicle for advertisers…. ….”I really hate the way the money grubbers constantly peck aroudn the edges at things until they can wiggle their … Continue reading
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Tagged alice cooper, art chantry, Beaver & Krause, bette midler, Bruce Springsteen, Captain Beefheart, ed sanders, George Harrison, Jethro Tull, John Van Hammersveld, Rolling Stones, t.rex, The Beatles, the Buzzcocks, The Ramones, Van Morrison, von dutch
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SOMEONE KEPT MOVING THE DOOR
Nowhere Boy. Everywhere Man. In any examination of John Lennon; mainly because of the exalted, now mythological esteem held, there is a real danger of loss of perspective and sliding into idolatry, hero worship and misplaced identification. The lesson of … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Johnson, Bev Bevan, Brian Epstein, Chris Knight, Cynthia Lennon, D.M. Armstrong, David katz, Gary Tillery, George Harrison, Jane Heap, John Green, John Lennon, Johnny Rogan, Julian Lennon, Matt Greenhalgh, May Pang, Michael Epstein, Nowhere Boy, Paul McCartney, Phil Spector, Ringo Starr, Sam Taylor-Wood, Stephen Cole, Steven Stark, Yoko Ono
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PARADISE LOST
On looking back on 2009, one of the most telling signposts was the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The film ”Taking Woodstock” appeared to be filled with inaccuracies, stereotypes and false archetypes which folded back onto each … Continue reading
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Tagged Ang Lee, Artie Kornfeld, Charles Reich, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, Jesse Helms, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Melissa Anderson, Michael Lang, Rick Griffin, Saint Anthony, Saint Augustine, Taking Woodstock, The Grateful Dead, The Incredible String Band, The Village Voice, Theodore Roszak, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Woodstock nation, Yoko Ono
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REVOLUTION OF THE SEXY LAMB
” it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing. Duke Ellington’s 1931 composition in reverse.Were there Subliminal messages in Beatles songs when played backwards? The famous dead-man messages contained within the marketing and the more subliminal experiments … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Beatles, Carl Solomon, Duke Ellington, Ezra Pound, F.Scott Fitgerald, George Harrison, Gertrude Stein, hemingway, Henri Matisse, Howl, J.Brahms, Jerry Saltz, John Cage, John Lennon, Kurt Weill, Matisse, Musique Concrete, Pablo Picasso, Patum Peperium, Paul McCartney, Pierre Schaeffer, The Beatles, Thornton Wilder, Village voice
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