Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four Chelsea girls, Heavy Metal Kids fleeing the Nova Police. The drummer emerges from beyond a wall of amps, dreamily staring into space, slack-jawed and moronic; the bassist, his pasty skin framed by long dark lifeless hair, is a ringer for Mario Montez. Their new guitarist, the one discovered in a men's room, has powdered his face and lipsticked his already feminine mouth. The lead guitarist is dressed in black mariachi pants and spiky teased hair; there is a gold ring in his ear and a red cancerous star on his chest. Heavily made up with eye-shadow...
...one knows quite what to do. The Rolling Stones are on stage in person live right there a part of our collective fantasy life, and now that real figures confront us there doesn't seem to be anything we can say. Back before the Mothers, before Hendrix, way back before the Who, we used to shriek. No one shrieks. We stare...
...taking its bearing in the maze of its unconscious." Of course, Jagger isn't really a great dancer; Tina Turner, who did a set right before the Stones in New York, cuts him in every way. We are told he's a great dancer, we imagine him to be one, and we respond to him as one, but that's our fantasy, our wish for a midnight rambler, and has nothing to do with...
...vocal improvisation. Much of the Stones' dynamic relies on Jagger's talent for splintering and then remaking the vocal line, a technique he borrowed from soul music and worked to perfection in masterpieces like "Goin' Home." Jagger wasn't having any of it, for two possible reasons: one, that the audience was already completely zonked on their own Stones' trip and it would have been senseless for him to waste the energy on something they wouldn't notice anyway; two, once that trick was on the table he'd have nothing more to show...
...one of those (smash, simultaneous with "shit...