| Author | Message | ||
     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1350 Registered: 05-2005 |
According to the Guardian http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm Do you think that guy really saw the Velvets? | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1130 Registered: 05-2005 |
He has a very vivid memory of it alright, but I don't think he's lying about it. I like Bono's description of seeing The Clash. Unusually economical for the billionaire tax-dodger. | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 217 Registered: 04-2005 |
But Pádraig how can we trust anyone that starts his recollection referring to himself in the third person? And then switches to first person in the second sentence? 'Bono is a singer in a band' indeed. I always think of the Savage Pencil cartoon of Bonio-the-dog-biscuit and The Hedge. Ever read Charlie Gillet's book 'The Sound of the City' Kevin? Great study of the rise of rock'n'roll...don't know if it ever has been updated cause my copy dates from the 70s I think. He is serious about music and if he says he saw the Velvets I reckon he probably saw them! | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 551 Registered: 08-2004 |
Observer Music Monthly is a good read. This month almost everything got 4 out of 5 & they were all kind of middling cultish bands. I liked the description of Stone Roses last stand without Reni or John Squire before the disastrous Glastonbury show. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 925 Registered: 03-2005 |
What a great read! Thanks Kevin. I love the honesty of Gillett acknowledging that he didn't get VU at that time. Nik Cohn's scary Elvis concert was great. Bono's description of a Clash concert is so generic and cliche-ridden that I doubt he ever saw them. Or if he did, he didn't hear them. And I loved the Sex Pistols story. It's hard to imagine Richard Branson being associated with such a scrappy crowd nowadays. I love the image of Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood being hauled off by the police. I've never been able to take more than limited doses of Public Enemy and, unfortunately, they conjure up intense and unpleasant memories for me but it sounds like their show--especially in the context of another country--was brilliant. |