Word: ruskins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard partakes of the general, worldwide confusion about art and what to do with it. For the artist his work is an approach to reality that is both different from, and entirely independent of other ways of knowing; science, language and so on. He believes, in the words of Ruskin, "that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy...
...going to school in Virginia, doing that to live, but I had an ultimate goal of playing in a successful band, and I'd been thinking about political music for a while," Ruskin says. "Cambridge, especially with Harvard up in arms, seemed like a good place...
...they're still working out their problems, like, for instance, the need for equipment. Right now they are using borrowed equipment, and they won't be able to buy their own until they begin getting gigs. In the meantime, Chip is finishing school, Rob and Gardner are working and Ruskin is spending all his time trying to make his band a success...
That spirit never fully formed, but that can be blamed more on the problems with the whole rally than on the Young Radios, who played with a lot of energy, intensity, and spirit of their own. After an instrumental bit and a quasi-reggae tune called Scratching (Ruskin: "say sort-of reggae, don't put down that I said quasi-reggae"), the Radios launched into "Modern Day Leper Man," a song about the Three-Mile Island near-disaster, before finishing up with "South Africa." Because the march was not ready to start on time, they did "South Africa" again...
...first time we played those songs before people. We are inexperienced and had a few technical problems, but I felt the spirit was good," Ruskin said. "We're working out a complete repertoire...