I love that he starts out talking about how unsure he was about writing about music, since near the end of his life he'd help Tom Waits write The Black Rider.
"A rock concert is in fact a rite involving the evocation and transmutation of energy. Rock stars may be compared to priests..."
OH NO HE DIDN'T!
New project: heavy metal (ÜBER heavy metal) fantasy game where the cleric class is replaced by rockers and religion is metal. Obviously you'd need equivalently metal replacements for the other classes, clearly Paladins/Cavaliers are replaced with Bikers, Thieves are Anarchists, maybe Magic-users are now Substance-users that gain otherworldly experience and knowledge from altered states of consciousness. Magic-hating types like dwarves or Conan are Straight-edge (as much as I hate the actual SXE "scene"), whereas someone like Elric is so far gone he need a huge cocktail of uppers and downers just to function...
and of course it takes place in post-apocalyptic/gothic/metal/fantasy world, because that too is metal.
""..so that when all our kids are born Venusians we will understand them""
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Holy hell. Thanks for passing that along. Still processing the thoughts ....
September 14, 2010 at 8:06 PM
Very cool!
September 14, 2010 at 8:46 PM
So stoked to read this.
September 14, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Wish it was the whole mag and not just one article!
Check out the names on the cover: Studs Terkel, Muhammad Ali, Rodney Dangerfield, I. F. Stone...
September 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM
one of the best beat legends. loved the article, thank you so much!
September 15, 2010 at 4:21 AM
I love that he starts out talking about how unsure he was about writing about music, since near the end of his life he'd help Tom Waits write The Black Rider.
September 15, 2010 at 5:43 AM
Waycool!! :)
September 15, 2010 at 6:44 PM
"A rock concert is in fact a rite involving the evocation and transmutation of energy. Rock stars may be compared to priests..."
OH NO HE DIDN'T!
New project: heavy metal (ÜBER heavy metal) fantasy game where the cleric class is replaced by rockers and religion is metal. Obviously you'd need equivalently metal replacements for the other classes, clearly Paladins/Cavaliers are replaced with Bikers, Thieves are Anarchists, maybe Magic-users are now Substance-users that gain otherworldly experience and knowledge from altered states of consciousness. Magic-hating types like dwarves or Conan are Straight-edge (as much as I hate the actual SXE "scene"), whereas someone like Elric is so far gone he need a huge cocktail of uppers and downers just to function...
and of course it takes place in post-apocalyptic/gothic/metal/fantasy world, because that too is metal.
September 18, 2010 at 7:18 AM