Re: Blues analogy gone wrong

[Ari Pöntinen <hlarpo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I should have known. Steve already has a nice review of the book here:
http://lemonsqueezings.blogspot.com/2009/12/12-days-of-zeppelin-book-with.html

I guess the book is still worth waiting for...

-Ari

2009/12/15 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
>