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 but they couldn’t “make the strange familiar” like the Beatles).
 
A lot of what they were doing was Dada and Surrealist, interestingly celebrating their 50ths in 1966 and 1967.

In 2047 we will be celebrating the 50th of OK Computer. 

5/27/2024            
      
An R&B groove derived from “at the parade”, weaving in the image of Dylan and Lennon in the “limo” film.

The Shortet version: