Bring it on Down

Bring it on down

Bring it down for me

Was thinking getting into the above show back in the day couldn't have cost ten bucks, a fraction of what it will cost you to get into Soldier Field next week. Call it inflation and good on those two mick brothers from the post-industrial council estates of Manchester. While Pop-culture has always been rewarded far, far too richly in America, there really was never enough good rock and roll.

Also made me remember, the week before the above gig, Oasis played the Whiskey. Walking down Sunset that very night, myself, my younger brother, and Arnie debated about crossing the street and hearing the new "Beatles" band, but it was moot, we'd never gotten in. Instead, we proceeded up the street toward the enormously endowed younger woman animatedly talking with two older guys. As we passed the threesome, I thought, I know that voice. Sure enough, it was a fully toupeed Tony Curtis. Seemed the protégé of the famed "I'm Spartacus'" actor was not satisfied with the massive billboard of her and her more than ample bosoms he had placed protruding above the boulevard - a true Hollywood story.

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On a more comical note, the NYT has a scoop, once again missing the real story. In lamenting the decline of Democrats in Trump's America, they placed this chart:

What's most amusing is an institution that has done their utmost over decades to create the Age of Trump, once again disregards the real story. The real story about the two parties in America has been the decline of both for six decades. It's two lines straight down with an occasional blip up of one or the other. However, this is the first time I've seen both parties now under 30%. Of course you'd never know this by the Times' coverage or by all talk of our political class framing every issue divided between the two parties. It's a way, as Simone Weil noted, to keep people from thinking and American politics is now completely braindead.

It made me think of my piece last week, On the Abolition of Political Parties. I thought of Iggy Stooge confronting his audience all those years ago saying, "You people don't understand how good this music really is."