Sunday, June 11, 2006
Czechs and thugs and rock and roll
Wherein an esteemed member of the esteemed English press seeks to elucidate the pulsing socio-political connectivity between the Plastic People and Frank Zappa and Velvet Underground while throwing in the Sex Pistols while talking about an event in recent Czech history. (My reminder to students of music history: just don't forget it was the English who threw the Czechs to the wolves in the first place, and indeed the second place, and didn't do a whole hell of a lot in the third place, which pretty much sets the time and place that the article is concerned with.) For me, it might be interesting, too, to hear from a Czech music journalist on how these musics washed ashore on the Coasts of Bohemia and were received. ¶ 6/11/2006 06:23:00 AM
Wherein an esteemed member of the esteemed English press seeks to elucidate the pulsing socio-political connectivity between the Plastic People and Frank Zappa and Velvet Underground while throwing in the Sex Pistols while talking about an event in recent Czech history. (My reminder to students of music history: just don't forget it was the English who threw the Czechs to the wolves in the first place, and indeed the second place, and didn't do a whole hell of a lot in the third place, which pretty much sets the time and place that the article is concerned with.) For me, it might be interesting, too, to hear from a Czech music journalist on how these musics washed ashore on the Coasts of Bohemia and were received. ¶ 6/11/2006 06:23:00 AM
