Re: Blues analogy gone wrong

[Ari Pöntinen <hlarpo@xxxxxxxxx>]

> sauerlemon@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Tim,
>> Hey there! I thought of you just now as I was reading "Shadows Taller than 
>> Our Souls" by Charles R. Cross. He's talking about "Whole Lotta Love" and 
>> sums the lyrics up as every line having to do with "a phallus or vagina" yet 
>> could not be censored -- "even with the sodomy lines taken from Dixon's 
>> 'Back Door Man,'" Cross writes. How come he and his editor didn't know 
>> that's not about sodomy? How could such a stupid line be printed? Don't 
>> these guys know their blues history 101?


Oh, I have already written to Santa Claus in the hope of getting that
book for Christmas but that sample doesn't sound convincing!

As Tim said, Cross may be too rock-centric and doesn't know the
background of even the familiar blues lyrics. I hope the rest of the
book is much better reading!

This review gives some hope (although it's just a blog review):

http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-led-zeppelin-shadows-taller/
>"For his own part, Charles R. Cross focuses in on the music, rather than the 
>sort of sordid sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll details of previous Zeppelin 
>bios — most notably Stephen Davis' Hammer Of The Gods. A wise move considering 
>the fact that Zep's reputation for road excess has pretty much been covered to 
>death in previous tomes."

-Ari