round the bend

[John Halle]

> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:49:09 -0500
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: 'round the bend
> 
> John Halle wrote:
> 
> >How about the Velvet Underground and the Warhol clique.
> 
> Yeah, how about 'em? Completely wonderful stuff, the VU I mean, even 
> if violent & nihilistic. I was just savoring the boxed set, Peel 
> Slowly & See, and all the cool pix of the stars in the accompanying 
> booklet. So much better than all that hippie crap that was floating 
> around 30 years ago. "Been in the country/much too long/trying to be 
> a farmer/I miss the city streets/and the neon lights/train comin' 
> 'round the bend."
> 
> Doug

It was Martin Luther, J.S. Bach's favorite composer, who first recognized
that "the devil has all the best tunes."  I guess now its the fascists.

Actually, I don't totally agree that "all that hippie crap" 30 years ago
was all so awful.  The White Album still has a lot to recommend it.

Yours in aesthetic pluralism,

John