Tonight's R4 Archive Hour is entitled:
The Grateful Dead are More Important than the Beatles.
Some folk will know I have no time for Beatles, so I can afford a little smile.
Stupid attention gathering headline but it's actually quite an interesting programme I think (or looks like it will be given a news article I was reading about it yesterday).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qmb
Here's the article (unpaywalled) https://archive.is/CB3sZ
Hopefully, one day, somebody will answer as to why so many (particularly American) Deadheads are right wing. I suspect it's that RW/Utilitarian crossover point, but what do I know...
I literally don't know what to do with the "I have no time for the Beatles" bit. It's utterly meaningless to me. I bet a large percentage of the people whose music you have time for had an awful lot of time for the Beatles themselves?
Thanks for the article- will definitely read later.
I don't understand America, and its politics are equally baffling to me. I have noted reactionary tendencies in elderly hippies in our own country and I can't work it out either. Something to do with extreme individualism in outlook. There are libertarian s of the left and I think I might be one, and there are libertarians of the right. I'll leave it there.
The Beatles thing has become my joke on here, and I think I should stop.
I know what you mean about the influence- Ian Hunter- now there's a rocker I admire - said people who don't understand Dylan don't understand rock.n roll. He is entitled to say what he likes of course, I shall continue to enjoy my Mott the Hoople records. Dylan i shall not understand/continue to ignore till I feel.like hearing him if ever.
