This is my first post here so I guess that makes me a newbie to these boards.
Anyway, I’m a long time reader/fan of Cecil’s. I’ve been reading The Straight Dope ever since the only way to do so meant running the risk of getting stains on your fingers from the cheap inks used to print newspapers.
I have an observation on the Jimi Hendrix column dated 10-Oct-1975.
The last paragraph reads:
*Jimi Hendrix isn’t the only 60s superstar to have experienced a posthumous revival. You may remember the renewed interest in Jim Morrison during the 80s, and just the other day I saw a cable TV special on Janis Joplin. Sure, these people were all pretty hot in their day. But who’d have thought they’d still be hot 30 years later?
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Is the date that the article was written perhaps wrong??
Was Cecil future tripping when he wrote it??
Is there some other explanation for this phenom that I missed??
Cecil must have a crystal ball that enabled him to see 1980’s musical trends in the 70’s. (you think he could have warned us about Flock of Seagulls, don’cha think)
Welcome to the SDMB, The Dude. A link to the column is appreciated. Providing one can be as simple as pasting the URL into your post, making sure to leave a blank space on either side, like so: http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_327a.html
The column originally appeared in 1975, but not in exactly that form. As the columns were put online some of them were updated, hence, the occasional incongurity of date and contents.
Jimi Hendrix isn’t the only 60s superstar to have experienced a posthumous revival. You may remember the renewed interest in Jim Morrison during the 80s, and just the other day I saw a cable TV special on Janis Joplin. Sure, these people were all pretty hot in their day. But who’d have thought they’d still be hot 30 years later?
Rolling Stone had a good theory about this, printed some twenty-odd years ago. We live vicariously through 'rock stars–Keith Richards does drugs so one doesn’t have to. It is then more convienient when they are dead. We don’t have to worry about their becoming teatotalers or Jesus freaks.
