Talk:Book:Soul Music/Annotations

Wow! Flash service. --Old Dickens 16:40, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

The Dean as Marlon Brando: Born to eat big dinners Also evocative, if his persona in Reaper Man is anything to go by, of Brando's character in Apocalypse Now - "I do love the smell of napalm in the mornings".

Good point on Steppenwolf's eponymous BTBW, btw - "eponymous" as this is the song that gave the world the phrase "heavy metal (thunder)" to describe a certain form of music!

--AgProv 14:36, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Listening to Radcliffe and Maconie's national show on BBC radio last night (07/04/09)and food for thought was provided by their discussing the idea that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil at the eponymous Crossroads, in exchange for superhuman guitar skills and consequent fame and fortune. It was noted that Johnson (while showing promise as a blues songwriter) just simply couldn't string together nmore than a few faltering chords on a guitar and showed no signs of getting any better than this. Then all of a sudden his skills exploded into fruition, as if steered by some external agency. It was also noted that Johnson died young, age twenty-seven, as if some sort of "year-and-a-day" Faustian pact had expired. This led on to a tally of all those other musicians who suddenly died age twenty-seven, as if this was some sort of critical year, a good vintage for dead rock stars.... Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly... strange but true.

On a non-related note, it occurs to me that Glod the dwarf, who is seen to sweat a lot and conscientiously avoid baths of any kind (Bob Geldof?) has another layer of meaning to his name. In parts of the Welsh borders and especially Flintshire, this is one of the very few Welsh words to have made it the opposite direction and is regularly used in local English. Sglod, (s)glod, Glodion, Glods are words used to denote potato chips, ie French Fries, as bought in the local chippie such as the one in the alley in Quirm, where the QAYL girls regularly go out of bounds for the taste of fried food. And the girls think the chip fat is too old and dirty and greasy...--AgProv 10:23, 8 April 2009 (UTC)