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...Hype: to con ("Don't hype...
...claimed that the "Give peace a chance" song was "a hype." "They started doing it in London, and the people in London are very much different about it. They run up onstage. They don't want to be asked. We have to drag people out of the audience to get them up there. You know how uptight New Yorkers...
...common bond and cause. We really believed that up until the time Lamont Washington [a Hair actor] died and they wouldn't cancel the matinee to let us go to the funeral. And we suddenly realized that they were using this hairy love thing as an incredible hype to get us cheap...
...rock subject to ready, hyphenated labeling. The Band makes excellent popular music, highly personalized and beautifully performed, distilled from years of dues paying, craft learning and eclectic playing and listening. It takes a great deal of sophistication, consciously or otherwise applied, to make music so perfectly simple. Detached from hype and trend, almost entirely dependent upon their fine heads and solid musicianship, there are a few groups and a few individual performers in the new music who endure and grow, whatever else is going down. They'll never rush the stage while The Band is on, but The Band...
Today, however, the songs of revolution are more explicit, the four-letter words are more frequent. And it all begins to smack of what publicity men call "the hype." Says Ed Denson, Country Joe's manager: "When these people talk about revolution, they mean protest, but they found that the word revolution shocks. The MC5 are taking a protest one step further to get attention." The MC5 clearly practice much of what they preach, as is shown by their string of arrests on charges of noisemaking, obscenity and possession of marijuana. Just as clearly, even their most aggressive songs...