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Week 8? Already? Yes, unless I missed a week. The obvious next person to feature is Jimmy Page. (For the less pop-music-obsessed: Clapton, Beck, and Page were all members of the Yardbirds, in succession except for a brief overlap of Beck and Page.) But I half-intended to skip him. Why? Because most of his best-known…
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Ok, what I really mean is what I'm saying; I just wanted to tie this post to the one about the contemporary reaction to Meet the Beatles. I don't think I had ever, until now, sat down and actually listened to this album. I'm not even sure I ever heard it all the way through as an…
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Every reader feels a sense of achievement on completing a book, which is why short books please. –Anthony Daniels, reviewing a book about W.H. Auden in The New Criterion I understand this very well. The other side of it is the intimidating quality of long books. I was halfway through The Brothers Karamazov (800 pages) over a…
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Neo-neocon again, on the Obama administration's use of the IRS against its opponents: So Nixon is convicted in the eyes of the public for what appears to have been largely thoughtcrime, whereas the Obama administration and its handmaidens such as Lois Lerner get off seemingly free (so far) for the actual crime. Obama’s much greater…
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AllMusic.com sums up Jeff Beck's relative obscurity nicely: While he was as innovative as Jimmy Page, as tasteful as Eric Clapton, and nearly as visionary as Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck never achieved the same commercial success as any of those contemporaries, primarily because of the haphazard way he approached his career. After Rod Stewart left…
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Neo-neocon has come to a sobering realization: And so if you are audacious enough (and your name is Barack Obama) you can fool most of the people most of the time. And your supporters will defend you for it, as long as you’re not lying to them about some pet issue of theirs. This is not a discovery…
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Megan McArdle: Over the years, I developed a theory about why writers are such procrastinators: We were too good in English class. This sounds crazy, but hear me out. It's sadly applicable to me down to the part where she starts talking about the current educational system: Why Writers Are the Worst Procrastinators However, she…
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You may have noticed the mention here and there over the past few days that February 9th of this years marks the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Here is what some critics had to say. (Thanks to Robert W for pointing this out to me.) I remember watching the…
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Well, this was sort of inevitable, after Robert Johnson's "Cross Road Blues": That's pretty much the definition of blues-rock, and probably my favorite single Cream track. As good as they were, much of their music, at least as it made its way onto records, seemed to lack something. This "Crossroads" is a live performance.…
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First, a piece in the National Catholic Register by Andrew Abela, dean of the School of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America: taking his cue from the current and recent popes, he argues for the place of ethics–serious, non-libertarian, Christian ethics–in business; taking the economic system more or less as it is, he…
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