23 skidoo

[Mark Kohut]

Buffalo Springfield: "Paranoia runs deep; into your life it will creep", etc.

--- On Fri, 10/9/09, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: 23 skidoo
> To: "P-list" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 8:49 AM
> ...so I reread Robin's post about the
> Byrds,
> that does sound a lot more like "Boards"...
> maybe supposed to be some kinda melding of notions
> with the Beach Boys, though...the surfboard coffee
> tables...
> 
> anyway, I looked up this Glen Charlock, I mean
> Gene Clark (just like Byrds/Boards, the two GCs are pretty
> darn simular), and read up on the Byrds -
> didn't know that Eight Miles High was really not about
> tripping,
> although even if you read it that way, it's like, "and when
> you come down"
> comes really early in the song...
> 
> but (to digress just a bit) I always liked Buffalo
> Springfield
> better than the Byrds and somehow thought the Byrds
> should've
> been an East Coast group and they would've been able to
> stay together...
> (there's even a Buffalo Springfield song "Nowadays Clancy
> can't even sing" so if the Byrds had been an East Coast
> group
> 2 of them could've got Clancy singing...)
> 
> but I ended up going to iTunes and getting "White Light"
> and
> listening to it all the way through, really some pretty
> nice stuff!
> According to the Wikipedia article, it was voted Album of
> the Year
> in the Netherlands in 1971.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> --- "Can't say it often enough -
> change your hair, change your life."
> - Sortilege
>