Where's the Book?

[Virtual Bison]

(12-15-2011 01:56 PM)Albert Hidel Wrote:  

The Clash Rule.

Its my big regret in life that I never saw them live. And since Joe Strummer is gone, it looks like I never will.

[Albert Hidel]

(12-15-2011 05:03 PM)Virtual Bison Wrote:  The Clash Rule.

Its my big regret in life that I never saw them live. And since Joe Strummer is gone, it looks like I never will.

Agree, back in the day The Clash and The Jam were about the best things going. I can remember listening to the "first" Clash album on vinyl (released second in the US) and immediately taping the whole thing because I knew I would wear it out.

Regret to say I never saw them live either. Always figured I'd catch them next time 'round, but eventually they were doing football stadiums and then kaput. The UK bands of that era had a short shelf life, so it was catch 'em when they're hot or not at all.

Did see Public Image once with Keith Levene (ex-original Clash guitarist), but that's as close as I ever got. Somebody in the crowd threw a beer on him and he dropped his guitar faster than you can say Keith Relf.

Never believed that "congenital heart defect" story for Strummer's demise. Funny all the drug-using musicians (Morrison, Kossoff, Entwistle, etc.) who suddenly died of "heart attacks." Strummer claimed he was a "socialist," so admitting he died from drug abuse would only confirm he was a moron.

Like most of these leftist retards, he was good at noticing the ills of society and bad at focusing on the cause. I know it was Jones who used to play in the band "London SS," but these are the same sort of dopes who embrace stylish anarchism and don't quite get the Nazi implications. Since the government is the problem, obviously the solution would not be more government.

As he also did in "Career Opportunities," Strummer powerfully articulated his youthful dilemma, but he never seemed to get that the reason you don't have choices is because the "clampdown" takes them from you. In a free society the marketplace determines product availability, not the government.

Still, his socialist shortcomings notwithstanding, I loved his passion and his lyricism. Another one of those "whole greater than the sum of its parts" situations. Although I do believe it was Jones and Simonon who really drove the sound, none of them ever sounded as good individually as they did together.

[Virtual Bison]

(12-18-2011 11:19 AM)Albert Hidel Wrote:  Agree, back in the day The Clash and The Jam were about the best things going. I can remember listening to the "first" Clash album on vinyl (released second in the US) and immediately taping the whole thing because I knew I would wear it out.

Regret to say I never saw them live either. Always figured I'd catch them next time 'round, but eventually they were doing football stadiums and then kaput. The UK bands of that era had a short shelf life, so it was catch 'em when they're hot or not at all.

Did see Public Image once with Keith Levene (ex-original Clash guitarist), but that's as close as I ever got. Somebody in the crowd threw a beer on him and he dropped his guitar faster than you can say Keith Relf.

Never believed that "congenital heart defect" story for Strummer's demise. Funny all the drug-using musicians (Morrison, Kossoff, Entwistle, etc.) who suddenly died of "heart attacks." Strummer claimed he was a "socialist," so admitting he died from drug abuse would only confirm he was a moron.

Like most of these leftist retards, he was good at noticing the ills of society and bad at focusing on the cause. I know it was Jones who used to play in the band "London SS," but these are the same sort of dopes who embrace stylish anarchism and don't quite get the Nazi implications. Since the government is the problem, obviously the solution would not be more government.

As he also did in "Career Opportunities," Strummer powerfully articulated his youthful dilemma, but he never seemed to get that the reason you don't have choices is because the "clampdown" takes them from you. In a free society the marketplace determines product availability, not the government.

Still, his socialist shortcomings notwithstanding, I loved his passion and his lyricism. Another one of those "whole greater than the sum of its parts" situations. Although I do believe it was Jones and Simonon who really drove the sound, none of them ever sounded as good individually as they did together.

Well this getting off track but I do love discussing music. Its my true passion in life.

Mick Jones did have his band Big Audio Dynamite which released a few hits in the 80s. I do not know where he is now.

The Nazi imagery which existed in punk and other forms of underground music was really more for sensationalistic purposes. For example The Joy Division would feature imagery of SS troops, Nazi rallies and swastika in their shows. They were not actual fascists but rather, they enjoyed shocking their audiences.

Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols would often wear shirts with swastikas. John Leyden (Johnny Rotten) was later quoted as saying that the Pistols were not really fascists but just liked doing things to fuck with people's minds.

[Armando Ramos]

(12-11-2011 12:33 PM)Winston Smith Wrote:  Gollin's Fairy Tale contents now available:

What, no mention of the alleged "co-author" Zurlini? Is this another one of those deals where somebody else does all the work and Gollin puts his name on it?

Or did Zurlini figure that since he no longer had government immunity he didn't need to be a "co-defendant" in a major defamation lawsuit?

[Ben Johnson]

(12-21-2011 01:10 PM)Armando Ramos Wrote:  Or did Zurlini figure that since he no longer had government immunity he didn't need to be a "co-defendant" in a major defamation lawsuit?

I suspect that's part of it. Also what did Zucchini do? He was a state employee. The charges were federal. What's he going to do, brag about how poorly he did his job?

[Yancy Derringer]

(12-22-2011 12:32 AM)Ben Johnson Wrote:  

(12-21-2011 01:10 PM)Armando Ramos Wrote:  Or did Zurlini figure that since he no longer had government immunity he didn't need to be a "co-defendant" in a major defamation lawsuit?

I suspect that's part of it. Also what did Zucchini do? He was a state employee. The charges were federal. What's he going to do, brag about how poorly he did his job?

The obvious answer is that Zucchini was never going to "co-author" anything, and that Gollum just put his name on the grant app to make it more appealing to those doling out the checks.

What does a physics prof know about legal issues? Jack shit, as we have seen. But having an AG on the ticket--even one that didn't have anything to do with the actual case--creates credibility in the minds of those who don't know better. Another Gollum snow job.

[DrMSchmidt]

Hahaha...you see, the books written by real scholars normally never hit the best seller list, and mostly and typically they address a very special and thus very limited audience only - that of the scholarly community in the writer's field of expertise. There may be exceptions to the rule in some rare cases if the author has got some significant things to say. Now, does this man have anything significant to say?

(09-16-2011 09:53 AM)Ben Johnson Wrote:  Has the book George is writing with 15 of his closest friends ever been published? I can't imagine it hitting the best sellers list. Doesn't he have a grant and reduced teaching load that he has to stretch out as long as possible?