SLPAD - 35 - the end of the intro

[Michael Bailey]

The Frank Zappa quote is from the liner notes of “Ruben and the Jets.”

This is an album of greasy love songs & cretin simplicity. We made it
because we really like this kind of music (just a bunch of old men with
rock & roll clothes sitting around the studio, mumbling about the good old
days). Ten years from now you’ll be sitting around with your friends
someplace doing the same thing if there’s anything left to sit on.

https://youtu.be/xX2wOtQMAIQ


(My favorite? eh, they’re all pretty good)


Henry Adams on Education - nope, can’t find that exact quote.



Most likely, much of my feeling for this last story can be traced to
ordinary nostalgia
               for this time in my life, for the writer who seemed then to
be emerging, with his
               bad habits, dumb theories and occasional moments of
productive silence in which he
               may have begun to get a glimpse of how it was done. What is
most appealing about young
               folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph
of finished character but
               the movie, the soul in flux. Maybe this small attachment to
my past is only another
               case of what Frank Zappa calls a bunch of old guys sitting
around playing rock ’n’
               roll. But as we all know, rock ’n’ roll will never die, and
education too, as Henry
               Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.