GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
JEFFERSON AIRPLANE “WHITE RABBIT” 1967
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THE LITTLE ROCK NINE 1960
In the beginning of 1957 when I was 11 – still trying to smile like Elvis – nine black students – the Little Rock Nine – had to be escorted by 101st Airborne to gain entrance to the school. Eisenhower announced that it was impermissible for a state to defy the orders of the U.S. […]
RUBY BRIDGES 1960
In the beginning of 1957 when I was 11 – still trying to smile like Elvis – nine black students – the Little Rock Nine – had to be escorted by 101st Airborne to gain entrance to the school. Eisenhower announced that it was impermissible for a state to defy the orders of the U.S. […]
“GUNSMOKE” 1955
http://youtu.be/u99IBrL9lQM In 1949, when I was four, the amount of time the television was on was, say, 1/2 hour per day. Let’s assume that in those early shows the number of new images per minute was three. That would total to 630 new images per week. Since this number will grow substantially, and so we […]
“HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL” 1957
In 1949, when I was four, the amount of time the television was on was, say, 1/2 hour per day. Let’s assume that in those early shows the number of new images per minute was three. That would total to 630 new images per week. Since this number will grow substantially, and so we will […]
EARLY TELEVISION COMMERCIAL FOR TELEVISION
I missed the radical importance of the transformation that had been happening since I sat in front of the tiny black and white screen in my parents’ apartment in New York City, my mind beginning to fill up with disparate images, far-flung images. (FROM AN AMERICAN STORY) This video is a link from You Tube. […]
JOHN LENNON “WOMAN” 1980
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THE BYRDS “EIGHT MILES HIGH” 1966
From Ron Coro (then the art director at CBS) came the phone call. Roger McGuinn needed a cover and would I be interested? Though not as radically as, let’s say. Lew Alcindor or Cassius Clay, Roger McGuinn had changed his name (God knows why) from Jim. Jim McGuinn had been the lead guitar player for […]
LINDA RONSTADT “WILLING” 1974
To the guard at the gate, I gave my name, and then drove into the Malibu Colony and found Linda Ronstadt’s white-shingled, green-shuttered new home. The windows facing the ocean were open and the breeze blew through. Linda kept giggling embarrassedly, excited by her purchase. “It cost so much,” she’d say. Then it was as […]
