Anti-Zionism Is Racism

[Forstater, Mathew]

I know it was a spoof, Ian... But it was an interesting concept. I was
about the same age or a little younger, one of my older brothers had it.
(He also has some albums or at least one by a band called "Troika" that
I eventually got hold of but then it ended up in an acquaintance's hands
who I lost track of. In my mind, I remember it as an awesome sort of
hard rock acid blues, almost Beefheartesque, but this might only be in
my mind. Does anyone know of them?). He also had a lot of Keith Emerson,
ELP, etc. Haven't heard any driving rocking 'classical' music in a
while. My brother was in a band at the time, or a little earlier, called
"The Purple Avocados". Those were the days. Whoops, if this is what I'm
starting posting to lbo already at 5, I better pull the plug, who knows
where this will go by tonight. That's funny that the kids nickname was
"Lttle Milton", what was the explanation for that. I remember the
picture on the cover, it was a fake newspaper, and the kid had horn rim
glasses and a serious, almost defiant look. Could have even been Elvis
Costello at 12. Was there some controversy about whether he had actually
written it (within the story, I know it was a spoof..)

From: Ian Murray [mailto:seamus2001 at home.com]


> Ian "Anderson" Murray, you are a scary dude sometimes.
>
> But remember, that lyric was written by a 12 year old kid, if I
recall
> correctly, who had won a poetry contest of some kind.
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That was a spoof. Gerald 'Little Milton' Bostock, was Anderson's
Freudinized childhood self/alter ego. I was twelve when I first heard
the album, definitely touched the philosophy nodule in me.