Tag Archives: Mick Jagger

humdinger jimmy: reckless pedestrian years

The beauty of being born again is that you get to wipe the slate clean. Its ingenious, very much in the spirit that de Toqueville described America on his visit early in the nineteenth-centiry as the land of constant personal … Continue reading

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glimmers of perfection

by Art Chantry: after much heated consultation and debate among noted experts, i have decided that this is the single greatest cover of rolling stone magazine ever made. issue 191/july 17, 1975/glimmer twins. …nothing so great except it’s perfect in … Continue reading

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where you wanna go with the men from uncool

To see unfamiliar emotional reality behind the facade of familiar material appearances. To somehow counter the nightmare of the pervasive material appearance. Obviously, the word spirituality has some some sappy cliched references and its meaning has not the same relational … Continue reading

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gettin’ yer ya ya’s out

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is the rolling stones playing live at the 1965 seattle teen spectacular. this photo is taken by the legendary jini dellaccio (probably the greatest “undiscovered” rock photographer of all time.) the band is performing … Continue reading

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building a new world: immediate sensation

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com): andrew loog oldham is the virtual inventor of “the crazy dangerous rock band manager”. this is the guy who “discovered” the rolling stones and created their bad boy image for them. granted, the lads in … Continue reading

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sticky lingers

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) I love seeing things like this. i was sent this by scott mcdougall (airbrush extraordinaire) and since he is also psychedelic poster/underground art geek, i have to assume this might actually be real. i’ve since … Continue reading

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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?

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

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CHAOS THEORY:MEMO FROM TURNER

Memo From Turner Didn’t I see you down in San Antone on a hot and dusty night Weren’t you eating eggs in Sammy’s there when the black man drew the knife Didn’t you drown the Jew in Rampton when he … Continue reading

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BEGGARS BANQUET: FEAST OF BURDEN

Where is the bridegroom? Its always been a famous puzzle in Bruegel’s ”Peasant Wedding” . For four hundred and fifty odd years this famous painting of a rustic marriage feast has presented Bruegel’s admirer’s with the riddle of  identifying the … Continue reading

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ITS ONLY ROCK N' ROLL

In 1830 French Romanticism truly bloomed with Victor Hugo’s Hernani and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, both works that fully embraced Diderot’s mandate: the Symphonie Fantastique, with its programatic autobiographical backdrop and dense intertwining of the spheres of composer and composition, would, … Continue reading

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