Greil Marcus Remembers Stanley Booth
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Stanley Booth was an exceptional writer from Memphis, most famous for his chronicle of the 1969 Rolling Stones U.S. tour that ended at Altamont. Mr. Booth passed away on December 19th.
https://greilmarcus.substack.com/p/for-stanley-booth-1942-2024
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>Brady and Lil's<
>Brady and Lil's<
rest in peace, Mr. Booth
Probably would have lived even longer if he favored The Rendezvous
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I just read the Stones book.
I just read the Stones book. I liked that Jones was given a reasonably fair shake.
I didn't like the dropping of the n-word a couple times.
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With a hard r, it was a
With a hard r, it was a pejorative word that was more common in 1969, especially in the Deep South. Not saying it was right, just that that's how it was. Nowadays, you're more likely to hear it with a soft r, used among black Americans themselves.
The song Brown Sugar germinated around that time too, became a hit single and then a setlist staple from it's debut at Altamont until just a couple of years ago when they retired it after some flak from some who found it's lyrics offensive. It's too bad, because that song is a banger.
Time's change, but censorship is a slippery slope.
At least we can have a discussion about it here.
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I grew up there, well versed
I grew up there, well versed in Jim Crow.
Any counterculture person in '69 would know better.
I have no problem censoring racist, sexist, straight up lies. I guess after nine years of Trump being normalized by media any sort of fuckeration is "free speech".