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...phrase is an accurate description for the whimsical and idiosyncratic artistic accoutrements of Dudley House. Residents of the co-op have gradually added decorations since Harvard first bought the building in 1958. The accumulation over the years ranges from Ouija boards and drums made from soup cans to Jimi Hendrix posters and an orange bathtub full of koi fish. And that’s just in the living room...
...Hendrix at Woodstock Bethel...
...Woodstock, the festival was already three days old and hopelessly behind schedule. By Monday, a half-million drug-addled, sleep-deprived, rain-soaked flower children had piled onto Max Yasgur's Catskill cow patch to hear everyone from Sha Na Na to the Who. But Jimi Hendrix was the headliner, whose contract stipulated that no other act could follow his. That probably wasn't necessary. Rousing the crowd on Monday morning with a 2-hr.-plus set that included his psychedelic, virtuoso Star Spangled Banner, Hendrix closed the books on the Summer of Love. Kent State was nine months away...
Maybe I’m getting old, but Ja Rule and Creed just don’t seem to fill the shoes of Biggie Smalls and Nirvana—or, for that matter, Hendrix and the Stones. And Nelly’s popularity notwithstanding, “it’s gettin’ hot in here, so take off all your clothes” doesn’t hold up as the anthem of a generation next to “the answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the wind...
...look at music as something that is timeless, something beautiful,” he says. “I want to be one of those artists that people will listen to in 30 years’ time…just like people listen back to Jimi Hendrix, or Miles Davis or Black Sabbath. They still live on. You got groups coming out now, like Ronan Keating, S Club 7, Spice Girls…that everybody’s going to forget about in six months’ time...