Comments on: A Hero Is Someone Who Hasn’t Lived Long Enough To Disappoint You

By: joebtsplk

joebtsplk — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 03:44:00 +0000

henry, being deeply conservative musically is not a bad thing, as you’re certain to discover later in yer mortal span.

By: mh

mh — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:18:43 +0000

Imagine was a terrible song anyway

By: Patrick Briggs

Patrick Briggs — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:14:33 +0000

Excellent post! Many Lennon fans have projected all they wish they could be onto him. It gives them the excuse to fall short of the ideal – it’s a cop out from being fully human, realizing their own human potential.

Thanks for the post.

By: dAnimal

dAnimal — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:20:12 +0000

It ruined Darby Crash’s suicide as well.

By: Chari

Chari — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 14:19:16 +0000

Lennon’s death anniversary actually appeared to overshadow the Pearl Harbor anniversary this year — at least here in Orlando.

By: ceres

ceres — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:22:33 +0000

“professional Beatles fan”–classic!

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:22:03 +0000

*Wild applause for Greg*

You nailed it. I stopped idolizing my favorite musicians ca. 1984 when The Clash started opening up gigs in football stadiums for The Who, one of those junkie dinosaur bands they’d hated on so much in 1977.

One of the things that bugs me most about the Lennon worship is that he’s constantly given credit for being the “avant garde” Beatle, largely on the basis of Revolution 9. In fact, Lennon was deeply reactionary musically, as he remarked more than once that he thought The Beatles lost it when they stopped playing rock n’ roll and started in with the studio experimenting, which was largely driven by….Paul. John hated anything that didn’t smack of working class toughness, he hated intellectuals (oh the irony) though he was, in the context of Liverpool when he was growing up, lower middle class.

Paul was doing tape loop soundscapes a good 18 months before Lennon, he was responsible for the introduction of backwards tapes on the records (he’d experimented with them at home already) and so on. While Lennon was going on weeklong acid trips out in the country, Macca was hanging out with the creme de la creme of London hipness, listening to Stockhausen, going to all the latest gallery openings, going to UFO to see Pink Floyd etc. etc.