On May 4 1970, four students were assassinated by the United States National Guard on the Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio while peacefully protesting the Viet Nam war. On May 19, 1970 (15 days later), Neil Young saw an article in Life magazine about the shooting, and immediately picked up his guitar andContinue reading “Four Dead in Ohio”
Category Archives: Rock and Roll
This Perfect Life (Part 1)
When I first connected to music, to music that was introspective, provocative, and meaningful, I was a young teenager. I was a teenager who didn’t know much about life, love, or pain. A teenager who didn’t know much about what made a life of substance. So I listened to music. I listened to music thatContinue reading “This Perfect Life (Part 1)”
The Perfect Anarchy
“Anarchy in the UK” by the Sex Pistols
The Perfect Improvisation of “The Harder They Come”
“The Harder They Come,” by Jimmy Cliff
From City Slickers to The Pretenders
“The Middle of The Road,” by The Pretenders
The Perfectly Joyful Loneliness of “So Lonely”
“So Lonely,” by The Police
(Nothing But) Flowers, by The Talking Heads
It was 80 degrees here in Chicago the other day, Friday, October 20th. On the same day in 1988, the year “(Nothing But) Flowers” by The Talking Heads was released, it was 50 degrees. Whether you believe in global climate change or not, that is a difference of 30 degrees in 30 years. The Talking HeadsContinue reading “(Nothing But) Flowers, by The Talking Heads”
Pictures of You, by The Cure
The perfect Cure
A Perfectly Short “Little Wing”
Little Wing, by Jimi Hendrix
Gritty, Honest, and Perfectly placede
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place” by The Animals
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