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.
Trinity & Hiroshima: The Bomb at the End of the War 1945
(Above: Hiroshima Peace Memorial) Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. “Trinity” was the code name of the first nuclear weapons test of an atomic bomb. This test was conducted by the United States Army on July 16, 1945. The small black dots on the horizon are trees. Then, on August 6, 1945…Hiroshima. […]
Gil Scott-Heron THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED 1971
The 60s didn’t end. Streams don’t dematerialize as they merge with a larger river. But it did seem our engagement with the idealistic and the political had come to an end. We, almost literally, abandoned the field. We abandoned the field out of out of exhaustion, excess, despair, weakness. Who knows? But nature abhors a […]
Bob Dylan EVERYBODY MUST GET STONED 1966*
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fphDnT36W4w&feature=youtube_gdata_player *Proper title: “Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35” “I was so scared of marijuana the first time I smoked it, I didn’t even know what it was, or I never would have touched it. A joint was offered to me by […]
JOHN LENNON “WOMAN” 1980
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. But finally a shoot wasn’t canceled. The crew was waiting outside, along with two New York policemen assigned by the city to keep watch. In the coffee shop Yoko sat frozen in a corner. She appeared to be easily as uptight as I […]
Linda Ronstadt PRISONER IN DISGUISE 1975
“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 S0 much,” she’d say. Then it was as […]
The Beatles ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE 1967
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. “On July 24, 1967, The Beatles release All You Need Is Love. If somehow, somewhere there were some promotional-director-in-the-sky who took care of these things, if somehow all of this were being done on purpose (as certainly we were sure it was), it […]
Jackson Browne (Joan Baez) BEFORE THE DELUGE
“On the brave and crazy wings of youth,” Jackson Browne later sang about what, by then, seemed brave and crazy, we set out to try and fulfill the vast promises we collectively imagined. Sometimes, as Brown also sang, this was political and sometimes it was a journey back to nature. If it seemed daunting, no […]
Buffalo Springfield FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH 1967
For FULLSCREEN click control below-right of video. Please add any comments below. http://youtu.be/bZP0pzDRtQw “One day I was tagging along with my brother as he went to visit some people he knew up the street on Fillmore. Jerry preceded me up the stairs. Again, though it is the middle of the day, all the windows are […]
Janis Joplin TAKE A LITTLE PIECE OF MY HEART 1968
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Bob Dylan LIKE A ROLLING STONE 1965
http://youtu.be/hk3mAX5xdxo “I walk into a restaurant where a group of five jocks sit in a booth. Silence at first. Stares. Then, in a stage whisper, one of them asks, “Hey. What’s that? A boy or a girl?” Gales of laughter. They slap each other on the back. (High fives weren’t invented yet). Dylan snarls: You […]
