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“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”
Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…
The concluding number of this terrific, but under-recognized British hard/progressive rock band (with one American, Gary Wright, of later "Dream Weaver" fame in the 1970s), this is the concluding number of their best album, Spooky Two:
Great as usual. The singer is Gary Wright who later did "Dream Weaver."
In addition to Wright, the band featured Luther Grosvenor, aka Ariel Bender, who played in Mott the Hoople and, later, the short-lived Widowmaker, a quite good band in a Bad Company vein. I had the privilege of hearing Widowmaker live when they opened for Electric Light Orchestra. Vocalist Mike Harrison of Spooky Tooth also had an enduring career in rock.
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