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Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , on March 18, 2015 | 2 Comments »

My musical, intellectual, and ecocultural interests would not have evolved the way they did without Daevid Allen — beat poet, musical visionary, and psychedelic rocker who died last week at age 77. Here’s a personal account of why. In the background are the social, material, and ecological connections that I intend to examine more closely in […]

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A 7-year musical itch

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 12, 2015 | 5 Comments »

One of my pet musicological theories is that the years 1967-74 were the most creative 7-year period in the history of musical humanity. Why those years? The social and technological revolutions of the 1960s — civil rights, the women’s movement, the counterculture and anti-Vietnam War movements, the sudden unifying singularity of television and mass (and […]

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My smile is stuck… (moonlight in vermont)

Posted in Music & soundscape, tagged , on December 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »

From the very first moment of hearing Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s Trout Mask Replica many years ago, I was hooked. The first crashing guitar chunks of “Frownland” followed by the Captain’s growling happy voice “My smile is stuck, I cannot go back to your Frownland”… When I read Lester Bangs’ lines, they rang […]

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