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...more dramatically the appropriateness of his imagery. His songs work because of the feeling behind them; Young is managing to grow old gracefully as a flower child, and his singing about sunshine still never fails to feel warm. Comparing records is unfair, but I am astounded by the hype given to Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina this year, who play in a similar vein but nowhere nearly as well as Young...
...play what they want to hear, but we don't play any song that I don't love. We know a lot more than most groups, and we're just musically good. We can pick up new stuff every day, and we just don't go in for the hype and the 'heavy' kind of junk that you get at the dating bars in Boston...
More subtle than the greatness and rush of widespread popularity was the challenge to resist success and stick with the blues. Physically and morally exhausted by the direction the band was taking, Larry had to separate the music from the show, the vocation from the hype, ego, money and exploitation. Rather than sacrifice health, values, peace of mind and a thriving and dedicated full-time job of teaching guitar, he decided not to stay around for the album. Larry is interested in seeing a tradition carried out, locally, which at one time was embodied in the James Montgomery Band...
...would be refreshing, in the day of the "super hype," to see college football returned to where it was simply competition of athlete against athlete, rather than the public relations jumble it is today. Perhaps then the distasteful 68-3 scores on the sports pages across the country could be eliminated. Those outrageous mismatches used to be called "laughers." But fewer and fewer people are laughing anymore...
This may sound "curmudgeonly" after the gaudy hype of the previous decade. But the acceptance of these notions is exciting because one gets the impression that what is happening now--at long last--is serious...