Yeah, SRV&DT had gold & platinum records in the 80’s and the Arc Angels record was gold in the early 90’s It looks like a different kind of history article.
Didion's impressions of the 1960s Haight-Ashbury found in "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" was not lost on me. Didion borrowed from Yeats' "Second Coming."
(ending: ""And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"")
Your choice of "Babylon" -brings to mind the Melodians (& then Jimmy Cliff's) rendition of Psalm 137.
"By the Rivers of Babylon ...
..and there we wept, when we remembered Zion
... How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land."
Yeah, SRV&DT had gold & platinum records in the 80’s and the Arc Angels record was gold in the early 90’s It looks like a different kind of history article.
Yes, this was about hit singles on Billboard, so-called "radio candy."
Didion's impressions of the 1960s Haight-Ashbury found in "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" was not lost on me. Didion borrowed from Yeats' "Second Coming."
(ending: ""And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"")
Your choice of "Babylon" -brings to mind the Melodians (& then Jimmy Cliff's) rendition of Psalm 137.
"By the Rivers of Babylon ...
..and there we wept, when we remembered Zion
... How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land."
These kids are busy being born:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYJS7AOrnbI
(Barton Hills Elementary sing Fastball)
Dylan's lyric ("It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding")
"... he not busy being born is busy dying..."
gives us all somewhere to slack and slouch toward.
Daniel Dodson - 4th Generation Austin -30-
just keep forgetting how many icons for me closed in the 1990s Steamboat particularly was a weekly gig with Extreme Heat and others