GENERATIONS

Then in 1939, Germany invades Poland and then, when Germany invaded France, peacetime conscription was introduced. By the time of Pearl Harbor the U.S. Army numbered 1,640,000. Then in June 1941 Hitler invaded Russia, and they became our ally. The U.S. Army expanded to 8,300,000 men.

Then in 1940, when Germany invaded France, peacetime conscription was introduced. By the time of Pearl Harbor the U.S. Army numbered 1,640,000. Then in June 1941 Hitler invaded Russia, and they became our ally. The U.S. Army expanded to 8,300,000 men. FROM AN AMERICAN STORY

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In the world outside, Ronald Reagan had settled into his Presidency. After Nixon’s resignation, Gerald Ford assumed office. It was interesting to me – now an ex-resident of Britain – to understand that in a Parliamentary democracy such as the UK or Canada – that would have been Ford’s natural role. The Prime Minister is […]

Music video was about music titularly, but it wasn’t music (Nor was it video, really. Most of them were film.) The most telling fact was that almost all videos were lip-synched, so while the visuals improved to extraordinary levels, there were no actual musical performances in the videos themselves, which is to say: music being […]

All of this was conceived by Ron Coro for Dave Mason’s new record. Split Coconut. We all awaited Dave Mason (once of Traffic; he had performed on “Dear Mr. Fantasy”). Yet another Englishman living in L.A., Mason soon walked through the door, breaking into peals of laughter when presented with his mask. He placed it […]

The music business had moved west, as some said civilization had, to settle in Los Angeles. I returned to L.A. quite simply because I had run short of money. From Los Angeles came the “new music,” the singer-songwriters, all American. They had been young men and women when The Beatles first appeared. Now, with The […]

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As America readied its military to invade Iraq, I, along with literally millions of others worldwide, protested the invasion. I was particularly struck at the time by the ineffectual nature of our protests. They did not draw the kind of violent police response as did the protests of the Sixties as if governments no longer […]

But in the campaign against Bush, Gore was frequently stiff and pedantic, apparently uncertain of how to present himself. It was interestingly reminiscent of the Kennedy-Nixon debates where, famously, the people that heard the debates on radio thought Nixon won, while those who watched Kennedy’s apparent ease and charm appeared convinced of his capacity to […]