hendrix version

[Lorentzen / Nicklaus]

s.Z. schrieb:

> The surround-sound theater, a permanent
> installation, offers another illuminating
> moment: an interview with Dick Cavett in
> which Hendrix talks about playing what
> Cavett supportively calls an "unorthodox"
> version of "The Star-Spangled Banner." 
>
> "I'm an American, so I played it," says the
> former Army paratrooper. Protesting that
> his treatment of the song isn't orthodox,
> he adds, "I thought it was beautiful." 

  so do i. you, however, played a more, well, "official" version. just a little 
  gedankenexperiment: if dougie would post, like some of us involved in this   
  maelstrom of war (it's not just, as you and others like to over-simplify it, 
  rob vs. millison), from another continent, would he still get that much     
  support for his pestilent calumniations among the silent moral majority and   
  even among people like you? very probably not. he's called several people     
  racists, holocaust-deniers, child molesters, anti-semites, neo-corporates,    
  neo-nazis, neo-idontknow ... and he goes on doing it. again and again and     
  again. y o u  simply do not know how it feels to be, as a foreigner, 
  calumniated in such a way, carrying nationalist undertones. rob does. so do i. 
  and i tell you: this pain is different from becoming object of an ordinary 
  flaming. when will you people start to understand this?! and although it were 
  not the people dougie accused but he himself who's made ugly statements about 
  "savages from whom we", so millison, "differ by controling our impulses", you 
  people tolerate and shelter him without any irritation. for this i have no   
  other explanation than - nationalism. if dougie would live in and post from,  
  say, india, he would certainly  n o t  get through with this. try to imagine  
  it, it's grotesque. a-and hey keith, another point i really do not get is: why 
  do you let yourself get intrumentalized by those motherfucking chickens who   
  ain't brave enough to speak onlist for themselves? we haven't elected you or  
  something to act as a "general host"! or did i miss this?! you're just hosting 
  this group read (for reasons i do not really understand), means you' re   
  providing us, if needed, with page-numbers. that's it. if you're not reading  
  rob's postings anymore, it's your personal fault and misery ... you've lost me 
  here completely. when i, in fall, mentioned this peculiar kind of nationalism 
  for the first time, i got two encouraring offlist responses by fellow european 
  p-lister. one wrote me: "you're right, they want this list to be an 
  a m e r i c a n  baby ..." so, i'm not only speaking for myself here. always  
  thought this cyberspace was about "post-nationalism" ... but then it still 
  seems to be the same old crap.

  congratulations! kfl  //:: ps: a toast to america! a-and a toast to free 
                                 speech!