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...same way two times in a row. On the Band tour he sharpened the tone of "It ain't me Babe," to an almost David Bowie bitchiness: "But it still ain't me babe/ No, no, no, it sure ain't me babe/ It ain't me you're lookin' for babe." This time he syncopated the lines, "I'm not the one you want babe," giving it a jazzy flavor. The first half of the show closed with a new love song, "Isis," that sounded like the parable from John Wesley Harding, "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: On the Street Again | 11/7/1975 | See Source »

...spoken bigot--"See that guy, he just got off. Happy as shit. Killed some fuckin' nigger the other day, runned him right over. Hadda go ta court today. We got 'im clean though; fuckin' judge lives right down the street from me. I spent Saturday afternoon over his house, lookin' at his car. Guy runned right over that nigger, but the judge lives down the street from me. Jeesus, he's happy..." And the bald-pated cigar-chomping businessman who looks like Kojak--"Gee son, I'm awfully sorry I can't let that one go for less than...

Author: By Jeff Leonard, | Title: A Cambridge Junkyard Junket | 9/26/1975 | See Source »

...failing ourselves we failed in the test of the times. We had so much going for us ... so much potential ... Do you realize it, man? We were the youth of our times ... And we blew it. Blew it completely. Look where it all ended ... We just turned out lookin' like a bunch of punks and freaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Requiem for the '60s | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

...very...heavy...life. We rocks are impervious to heat. We...stay...cool," And his coolness increases, strangely enough in direct proportion to the number of his cliches, which come fast and furious. His advice to Oblio is to keep cool--like "Mother Nature sittin' at the console, lookin' at the whole scene and puttin' it on eight-track...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: A Recycled Cartoon | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...look for more work, wait in line. When a building's almost done, and construction is light in the area, they start to say to each other, "Tuck your money in the bank, boys," and try to cheer each other up by saying, "Hey, what of it? I was lookin' for a job when I found this one, right...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Shove It Up Your Nose | 11/9/1974 | See Source »

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