This SydArthur festival appeared longer than usual. I think it was due to the length of the musical pieces. Which I have absolutely no problem with at all.
I discovered and rediscovered a lot of things in the past 28 days. Like:
Florian Fricke's top 10 albums list in 1972 included the first Ash Ra Tempel LP, Jefferson Airplane's "Bark" and Led Zeppelin "IV."
The design of the Suzanne Pleshette-looking woman throwing a brick which I believe was the provenance of the cover of the Dope "Featuring Fuck Authority" album.
I saw Liv Ullmann in the restaurant Windows Of The World, located on the top of the North Tower of the World Trade Center, in 1977.
The Bob Seidemann portrait of The Grateful Dead in Daly City, CA in 1967 that looks like a Twilight Zone episode: https://live.staticflickr.com/4315/35885141261_09616bfeac_b.jpg
Dennis Dunaway's "Snakes! Guillotines! Electric Chairs!" autobiography
Saw the name "Jet Boy" appear in the subtitles during a viewing of the film, "West Side Story"
Saw an ad for a Suicide show at the Village Vanguard in December 1970 hovering above an ad for Yoko Ono's PLASTIC ONO BAND album. (Credit: "PUNK MUSIC BY SUICIDE.")
Nico's Bataclan 1972 appearance featured her wearing a maxi coat with a pattern that always reminded me of brain coral.
An outtake from the wedding of Mick Jagger and Blanca Pérez-Mora Macías I'd never seen before. Bianca looked even more beautiful than usual and twice as innocent.
Mick Jagger may have the largest supplies of fucks not given by any human in the 20th century. (Also: clothes)
That Marianne Faithfull appeared onstage at a 1974 Bowie show at the Marquee, London dueting "I Got You Babe" with him. Dressed as a sphinx (!)
A poster of the Grateful Dead (Phil, Bob, Jerry) performing at RFK Stadium, Washington DC, 1973 that hung in a friend's music room 40 years ago. Phil's wearing a flopping hat and Weir playing an SG Gibson (of all things.)
That James Brown played a concert in Zaire in 1974.
A caption from "Rock And Roll Babylon" underneath a shot of Pigpen that described him as "a bulky prototype of a heavy metal kid."
That the shot of the Grateful Dead playing in the street in the gatefold of LIVE/DEAD was on Haight Street, right in front of the Straight Theater.
That Zappa was ever photographed with William S. Burroughs.
That "The Lost Motherland" by Apryl Fool was a revelation. I'd heard it before, but the majority of the album never moved me. Then again, Hiro Yanagida was never my thing.
That I've had a new copy of "The Golden Ass" on my bookshelf since the last SydArthur festival and haven't read it yet.
That "Dödsdansen, Life Of An Island Lad" was the track I replayed the most, by far. Sorc'henn are geniuses for mystery that deep, repetitive and scary.
That I need Love's "Da Capo" on CD.
That in July, 1971, when I was a child riding a horse in Colorado, the following albums were released:
MC5: High Time
Funkadelic: Maggot Brain
Black Sabbath: Master of Reality
The Moody Blues: Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Deep Purple: Fireball
Peter Hammill: Fool's Mate
Isaac Hayes: Shaft soundtrack
That's a pretty good month for the Rock! So was the past one. Hooray!
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