Author, THE BIRTH OF LOUD: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll | iansmithport@gmail.com
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Uh so the great @StevieVanZandt just said he read AND liked The #BirthofLoud
~BRB~
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The Jann Wenner thing is to me one more reminder that the entire mythology of Sixties music needs to be reconsidered and rewritten. We’re seeing just how bad and limited a worldview the existing canon came from.
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Really tickled by this essay in which @adamgopnik takes a piece of WHAT'S GOOD and dilates it into a proper disquisition on the nature and baggage of rhyme.
Rhyme is the material of a greeting card—“Roses are red / Violets are blue / Sugar is sweet / And so are you”—and the high-tragic language of Racine. What is the proper way to employ it? nyer.cm/c9VcRRC
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For those who attend our WHAT'S GOOD celebration this Saturday with author @dlb & guest @iPORT, an exclusive treat when you order the book directly from us:
A 'Side B' mix of songs explored in the book.
Here's a little taste, created by the author: soundcloud.com/axaxaxasmlo/w…
This Sat 2/12 I'm talking virtually with @dlb about his [timely slang for high quality] new book, WHAT'S GOOD: Notes on Rap and Language (via @CityLightsBooks). Come hang! bit.ly/3J5c2lA
I wish more people talked about the brilliance of The White Album as an essay title — invoking the Beatles’ dissolution and loss of plot to indicate the same for Didion personally and for the world at large
A good appreciation of Didion, who seems like the last of a now-extinct species — the midcentury megawriter. Her sentences changed me, maybe every writer, also the entire culture.
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The best thing Pitchfork has ever published pitchfork.com/features/lists…
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The SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly, dead 7 years apart. Thanks to @EskSF for the no-bullshit eulogies. "Nothing beside remains," etc.
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The CA recall cost $300 million! Don’t people know you can almost buy a house in the Bay Area for that?
Amazing how even Charlie Watts — the lynchpin drummer of the greatest rock band in the world — kinda wanted to be something else youtu.be/yJlw5jUZ_FI
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When I was a shitbag college music journo, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof told me Charlie Watts was a huge inspiration. I was surprised to hear such classic rock reverence. But Watts' style was truly timeless: agile, subtle, beautifully behind the beat.
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Ugh RIP to the great Gift of Gab, whose rhymes (and humor!) here still gobsmack me every time. A Bay legend. youtube.com/watch?v=WlOrx7Hn…
Having heavy Bay Area feelings as Larry Graham explains on @LowCutConnie’s Tough Cookies how he got his first bass at Music Unlimited in San Leandro - my home guitar shop for years
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