Word: troubadours
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...item of nostalgia: four young men each night take the stage of Manhattan's Winter Garden to impersonate the Beatles of long ago. Or else a splendid fable of arrogance brought low: those who warned "Never trust anyone over 30" are now losing their hair. The wife of Troubadour Bob Dylan ("something is happening here but you don't know what it is do you Mister Jones?") divorced him because she said that, among other things, he was a wife beater. Ex-Yippie Jerry Rubin, 39 now, lives in a sleek Manhattan highrise, complete with uniformed doorman...
...center of the rock swarm was the Troubadour, a dank Santa Monica Boulevard bar that offered newcomers three-song auditions on Monday nights. Fast talkers who knew they needed only ballpoint pens and promising new groups to become record company executives jostled in the Troub's murk with finger snappers who knew they needed only luck and chord books to become rock musicians. The Poneys wangled a gig at the Troubadour. They had hit the small time, but they were rock musicians...
...prove his sympathy for feminist causes sometimes backfires, making him sound overbearing instead. But these moments are rare. For the most part, Infamous Woman is both a scholarly and an enjoyable book. Barry admirably portrays the complex woman who wrote shortly before her death, "I am still a troubadour) who believes in love, in art, in the ideal, and sings his song while the world jeers and jabbers...
Blue dreams of what he could have done as a medieval troubadour, roaming the streets of Europe. He claims never feeling completely comfortable as a storyteller in present-day society. "There is no tradition of storytelling in our society and no models for it...our society is so non-supportive for storytellers." He cites audio-visual influences such as T.V. as a deterrent to serious storytelling in the traditional sense. Blue laments, "We don't even have children who know they're supposed to listen to stories...you got to be strong...
Manrico, the tenor troubadour in Il Trovatore, may be the biggest patsy among all the operatic heroes created by Giuseppe Verdi. Just stir up a little trouble and Manrico will dash off to get involved-usually with disastrous results. At the end of Act I he rushes forth to outduel the evil Count di Luna, but he spares the count's life and later gets stabbed for his trouble. At the end of Act III he races to rescue his adoptive mother Azucena; both end up in prison...