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...Perhaps the one thing that was certain for the Class of 1976 was that they had seen Harvard fundamentally change its attitude toward women. The Harvard they left behind could no longer remain an old boys?? club...
...chapter, Johnson goes back to Liberia at the request of Esquire magazine. This section is simultaneously an unfiltered report of events and an absurd hallucination, with Johnson portraying the Africa of Liberia not so much as the Dark Continent as another planet. Menacingly titled “The Small Boys?? Unit,” Johnson writes of trying to reach and interview Charles Taylor, one of Liberia’s leaders. He gets stuck on buses that sometimes decide not to go anywhere. He gets his passport only mistakenly stamped, and nearly sends his guide to jail...
...string of shows exclusively in the U.S. to promote the re-release of their 1980 masterpiece Underwater Moonlight. As anyone who’s heard the album can attest, the British band’s melodious, jangling assault produces thrills that could only be explosive live. Unfortunately, the Soft Boys?? third full-length album was also their last, and many have waited decades to hear it performed. For some reason, what is now generally regarded as a work of genius was then barely given a glance, and the band parted ways within a year of Underwater Moonlight?...
...Soft Boys was released in 1977. Rew replaced Davies, and the 1979 psychedelic Can of Bees LP—clearly influenced by the Bs: Sid Barrett, Captain Beefheart, the Beatles, the Byrds, and William Burroughs—was recorded (Hitchcock has previously described “the Soft Boys?? as a Burroughs amalgam of Soft Machine and the Wild Boys). After one more switch (Seligman replaced Metcalfe on bass), the Soft Boys sound that would go on to influence the likes of the Replacements, R.E.M. and the L.A. Paisley Underground scene was solidifying...
...this is a performance by Robin Hitchcock and his merry men.’” According to Hitchcock, while it is difficult to recollect the original experience of playing together and compare that to the recent reunion, he has gained perspective regarding the Soft Boys?? sound on Underwater Moonlight...