Overthinking and Underthinking

[sufi]

Whoa Bryan
Perhaps when you're a big star you need to get a bit wild to retain the spontaneity
unlike Bryan,

He's really gross and pervy in this interview as well.

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IT WAS WITH a certain apprehensive curiosity that I first noticed the brown lace-up shoes. He displayed a normalcy that I just couldn’t trust. After all, I’d seen his photos and I knew I was dealing with no ordinary deviant. Yet the toned-down reserve, the limp handshake (handshake?) and the...

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amazing how that sort of shtick used to be acceptable let alone something to boast about

 

[sufi]

These are like artificial spontaneity to try and get you out from up yourself

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Oblique Strategies (subtitled Over One Hundred Worthwhile Dilemmas) is a deck of 7x9 cm printed cards in a black container box. Created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt and first published in 1975.Each card offers an aphorism intended to help artists (parti

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[woops]

is that one of his extensive collection of pornographic decks? :/

 

[IdleRich]

Does he have one? Certainly the card with the picture of the girl about to urinate on the cover of HCTWJ would suggest so.

 

[woops]

it's all in that infamous interview

 

[IdleRich]

Also, I'd like to know if it's true that terrible glam-indie band The Warm Jets thought it was a phrase for some rockin' guys and didn't realise that they were in fact naming themselves after streams of piddle.

 

[sufi]

"Repetition is a form of Change"

 

[sufi]

"Remove ambiguities and convert to specifics"

 

[sufi]

The frustration at #1 Record's obstructed sales contributed to tension within the band. There was physical fighting between members: Bell, after being punched in the face by Hummel, retaliated by smashing Hummel's new bass guitar to pieces against the wall.[5] Hummel took revenge at a later date: Finding Bell's acoustic guitar in the latter's unattended car, he repeatedly punched it with a screwdriver.[5] In November 1972, Bell quit the band. When work continued on songs for a second album, Bell rejoined, but further conflict soon erupted. A master tape of the new songs inexplicably went missing, and Bell, whose heavy drug intake was affecting his judgment, attacked Fry's parked car.[5] In late 1972, struggling with severe depression, Bell quit the band once more, and by the end of the year Big Star disbanded.[5]

After a few months Chilton, Stephens, and Hummel decided to reform Big Star, and the three resumed work on the second album.[5] The title chosen, Radio City, continued the play on the theme of a big star's popularity and success, expressing what biographer Robert Gordon calls the band's "romantic expectation".[18] As Hummel put it:

This was probably pretty lame, but in those days putting any word in front of the noun "city" to sort of emphasize the totality and pervasiveness of it was just a way of talking people had. If someone suggested going to a store but you had gotten a bad deal there you might say, "Oh no, that place is 'rip off city'." Calling an LP Radio City would be kind of wishful thinking. I mean we hoped it would be played on the radio a lot, making it "radio city". Of course it didn't pan out that way...[19]

Stephens recalled: "Radio City, for me, was just an amazing record. Being a three-piece really opened things up for me in terms of playing drums. Drums take on a different role in a three-piece band, so it was a lot of fun. [...] Radio City was really more spontaneous, and the performances were pretty close to live performances."[5]