-Caveat Lector-
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Andrew Hennessey wrote:
>>Following the Beatles, who incidentally were put together by the
>>Tavistock Institute, came other "Made in England" rock groups, who, like
>> the Beatles, had Theo Adorno write their cult lyrics and compose all
>>the "music." I hate to use these beautiful words in the context of
>>"Beatlemania"; it reminds me of how wrongly the word "lover" is used
>>when referring to the filthy interaction between two homosexuals
>>writhing in pigswill. To call "rock" music, is an insult, likewise the
>>language used in "rock lyrics."
>
>I was just starting to think that the author had something - then I came
>across this paragraph,
>1. This guy 'Theo Adorno of the Tavistock Institute' had to have been one of
>the most talented musicians in the world then ....
>2. The rather undereducated lump-categorisation of all Rock Music is an insult
>to our intelligence.
Yes, and it ignores the FACT that the term 'rock' was being used to
describe a music genre well before the 'era of rock'n'roll'...I remember
listening to my mother's 78rpm of Benny Goodman's Orchestra with Peggy
Lee singing about how she liked to "rock and roll", a recording which was
made in the 1940s...
Plenty of swing era music had some pretty raunchy lyrics, and quite often
referred to drug use, usually cocaine and marijuana (albeit usually in
veiled terms, sometimes overtly ala "I Get A Kick Out Of You")....
It is not hard to find music which was the 1920s equivalent of "The Top
Ten" which referred to alcohol use, even tho Prohibition was in effect...
I remember my parents and their peers, in reminiscing about one favorite
band or another, commenting on any number of musicians who were known for
their illicit drug use...obviously if the general public was so aware of
it, it wasn't something that was particularly hidden...
And I remembered that for all the media hype at the time about the
'sudden' and 'growing' 'drug problem' amongst America's youth...of
which I WAS one at the time...especially all the hysteria over how
popular music was 'encouraging' it, my parents and their friends seemed
pretty accepting of the pot, cocaine, and heroin use amongst THEIR
musical icons...
Anyone remember Dean Martin's TV show? He probably was faking, to a
point, but his whole "shtick" was one of presenting himself as a
pleasantly inebriated host...indeed, Dean Martin's "drinking problem" was
a classic joke...
So much for role models...
Movies and TV of the 40s, 50s, and early 60s always showed the
mainstream, middleclass middleaged as constantly downing one alcoholic
drink after another...by the late 50s and early 60s, any number of
prescription sedatives were added to the mix of 'socially acceptable'
drugs presented in the media as 'okay'...
The Rolling Stones "Mother's Little Helper" zings in on that exact
hypocrisy...that while 'adults' were bemoaning the growing drug use
amongst their children, they themselves couldn't cope with even everyday
stresses without downing Martinis or Scotch-on-the-Rocks, not uncommonly
washing down Valiums with them...
>The impact on our leisure time of exposure to technology and cultural
>diversity was going to produce many new ideologies, many new art forms,
>and they appear to have been directed towards a dead alley of drugs
>and laissez faire. However-much the architects of conspiracy wished
>to trash the minds of the young through culture -
To 'trash the minds of the young through culture', one only needs look at
mainstream TV...
>>Without massive media hype, and without almost around the clock
>>coverage, the hippie-beatnik rock, drug cult would never have gotten off
>> the ground; it would have remained a localized oddity. The Beatles,
>>with their twanging guitars, silly expressions, drug language and weird
>> clothes, would not have amounted to a hill of beans. Instead, because
>>the Beatles were given saturation coverage by the media, the United
>>States has suffered one cultural shock after another.
>
>Did I miss Buddy Holly, James Dean, Elvis, Carl Perkins etc etc of the 50's
He also ignores the fact that when the Beatles first came over here and
first got the saturation coverage, their lyrics were no more radical than
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"...they didn't start experimenting with drugs,
and writing about it in their songs, until almost 2 years later...
Also ignores the fact that it were icons of not only mainstream America,
but of "law enforcement" such as the FBI and CIA that were experimenting
with hallucinogenic drugs, usually without the knowledge of those being
tested on...
It wasn't the hippies who had a plan in the works to dump LSD into the
water supply of a major American city...
>Also, it is a little known or quoted fact that the Coca plant from which
>cocaine comes is a scientifically proven 'miracle cure-all' plant containing
>approx 14 alkaloids of which cocaine is one.
Yes, and into the early years of the 20th century, the 'soft drink' Coca
Cola DID contain cocaine, a fact that was flaunted in its early
advertisements, which touted 'the high' one would get from drinking it...
So let's hear about how ragtime music corrupted our grandparents and
greatgrandparents... ;-)
June
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