December 2010
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Loose - The Stooges
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“What effect did Woodstock have one music? That’s when the market got big enough for the marketers to realize that they should go for it. They could isolate this whole group of people, target them as a consumer group—-and they did. They used the music. That was the beginning of rock and roll being used in commercial. That’s the long-term effect. Woodstock was a bullshit gig. A piece of shit. We played fuckin’ awful. No one was into the music. I think Stephen was way overboard into this huge crowd. Everybody was on this Hollywood trip with the fuckin’ cameras. They weren’t playin’ to the audience as much as to the cameras—-these fuckin’ cameramen were all over the stage. It was a distraction. I thought TV was a sellout. You get used to it after a while, and you even start getting into filming things to keep a record of it, but at first i never thought of being filmed while i was playin’, and i could see everybody changing their performances for the fucking camera and i thought that was bullshit. All these assholes filming, everybody’s carried away …..I wasn’t moved. I wouldn’t let them film me, that’s why I’m not in the movie. I said, ‘One of you fuckin’ guys comes near me and I’m gonna fuckin’ hit you with my guitar. I’m playing music. Just leave me out.’ Peace, love and flowers. That’s where i was at when we did Woodstock. So I was there…but I wasn’t. I left an imprint.”
—Neil Young (via necrophilia)
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I Know It's Over
The Smiths
The Smiths - I Know It’s Over
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