23 skidoo

[Mark Kohut]

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/the-boys-of-summer-brian-wilson-will-rework-george-gershwin-for-new-album/

--- On Fri, 10/9/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: 23 skidoo
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Friday, October 9, 2009, 10:29 AM
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 7:11 AM, Michael
> Bailey wrote:
> 
> >>> (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...)
> >> 
> >> About drug abuse of some sort, as I recall.
> > 
> > maybe,
> 
> Not maybe, trust me on this one.
> 
> > but not all their stuff was.
> 
> But some [actually a lot] of their other stuff was.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtO3vowEfXU
> 
> > They had great love songs like Bluebird (which
> > the James Gang also covered) and Sit Down I Think I
> Love You
> > and epics like Broken Arrow
> 
> And one of my personal favorites: "Out of My Mind." Track
> 11:
> 
> http://www.rhapsody.com/buffalo-springfield/buffalo-springfield
> 
> I'm a huge Buffalo Springfield fan—have original issue
> LPs of their three titles AND the CD box.
> 
> "For What It's Worth" is about as 'Paranoid' as it gets.
> 
> >>> 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.
> >> 
> >> Don't know what you're referring to—perhaps you
> can send us a link?
> 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Light_(Gene_Clark_album)
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziyrtpTq7k
> 
> Gene Clark was the heart and soul of the Byrds when they
> first appeared. One of the less obvious musical tragedies of
> the '60's.
> 
> > --- "Can't say it often enough -
> > change your hair, change your life."
> > - Sortilege
> 
>     Almost cut my hair
>     It happened just the other day
>     It's gettin' kind of long
>     I could've said it was in my way
> 
>     But I didn't and I wonder why
>     I feel like letting my freak flag fly
>     And I feel like I owe it, to someone
>     -David Crosby
> 
> 
>