There was a NZ band called simply, the Stones. They were good, too!
The UK government tried to put an injunction on the album
Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
(on grounds of indecency). Said Sex Pistols were represented by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson. He argued in court that 'bollocks' was in fact a word of long and illustrious standing in the English language. Indeed, it used to be the standard term for testicles within English-language bibles, until the King James Version, when it was replaced with the word 'stones'.
As Geoffrey Robertson recounts, "At this point, Mr Rotten leaned over to me and whispered, 'If we lose this case, don't worry about it. We'll just rename the album Never Mind The Stones, Here's The Sex Pistols."
Sunday Morning Listening:
Switched On Bach
by Robert Moog.
Creating a rare trifecta of Sunday Bach mellowness, nostalgic futurism and associations with A Clockwork Orange.
Switched On Bach by Robert Moog.
Do you mean Walter/Wendy Carlos?
Do you mean Walter/Wendy Carlos?
Heh, I was just coming in to post the same thing.
That is correct!
I'm addled because I wrote a piece on Moog recently and mentioned Wendy Carlos.
Warning: Theremin music is slandered in this profile.
Like convention-bending science fiction authors Samuel Delaney and Norman Spinrad, Robert Moog was a Bronx Science alumnus
Heh, I wonder if it's significant that Kubrick was also a child of the Bronx.
I just watched video of a marching band playing In-a-gadda-da-vida.
So then I needed bleach:
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17:04 baby!
I may be interviewing Robyn Hitchcock by phone this Friday morning. What should I ask him?
Ask him what this lyric means:
"If I were man enough I'd come on your stump."
Or not. Wait, didn't Robyn give Pete Buck a cat when Pete was crashing on his floor during the recording of I forget which album? You could ask about the cat....
I may be interviewing Robyn Hitchcock by phone this Friday morning. What should I ask him?
What was the name of the girl in San Francisco who inspired "I'm in Love With a Beautiful Girl"?
What's the American equivalent of Basingstoke?
Why so many songs about bugs and gender dysphoria?
