There's a lot of talk these days, some might call it hype for the merch machine, twenty years down the road, about re-investigating the good Docktor's demise.
Personally, I'm not sure there's much there, there.
Then again, as reader Lew E and I discussed on the thread to last week's post, and as HST himself once wrote....
...History is hard to know because of all the hired bullsh*t...
Fear and Loathing, The First Part, 1971
Not to mention the hangers on and the ten percenters.
Sod the streets at once!
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Norman Greenbaum... Always loved that one hit wonder. That one song launched a thousand fuzz boxes
ReplyDeleteKinda surprised one J. Page did not steal said NGreeenbaum riff for a tune titled 'Whole Lotta Fuzz'...
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As a teen who was stepping away from the constraints of Catholicism, I was horrified by what I perceived to be the co-opting of the rebellious spirit of the moment by people who wanted to give it all up for that from which I was running. Little did I know that the illogical progression of this would be Preachy Paula infesting the halls of power. So, unlike GarFish, I don't welcome NG's, thankfully, one hit.
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DeleteFuzzboxes for Jeebuz?
Cazart!
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I saw what you did there!
DeleteHunter's last moment was presented as cut and dried news at the time. He did not say anything (ever) about a certain US President did he?
ReplyDeleteNot sure about the current US'ian leader, but Thompson had a lot to say about the last leader he lived through and, especially, the actions of that leader's regime.
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