May 27ths
5/27/1966 Long sequence involving Bob Dylan and John Lennon, filmed riding in the back of a limo driving into central London. No script or direction other than to themselves. The piece was long and incomprehensible, made worse by the fact that they were both on drugs. The sequence was intended to form part of Eat The Document , a chronicle of Dylan’s latest European concert tour. [2026: 60 year anniversary] 5/27/2000 Smashing Pumpkins announce breakup. 5/27/2017 50th anniversary of the release of Pepper. What is remarkable about this album is the amount of creativity and inventiveness, given the state of recording technology in 1967. Pop music was just dipping its toe into the avant-garde. In retrospect, the Beatles might have been “me too”, but they did it so well, in the sense that they were the bridge to familiarity by the average listener. That’s the other remarkable point: what took them so long? (Pink Floyd was already at that level b...
