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Noticed while pawing through the archives, here is my one and only Flipper anecdote. Or at least, the only one I can remember. Life was…
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This seems appropriate for today, in view of the goings-on at KALX, Thurs. 1PM. A Flipper anecdote plus "my Flipper," sort of. https://medium.com/@drankf/guitar-with-mittens-a-flipper-anecdote-afbe04a0264f #music #punkrock #memoir #minds
So I get why Thomas More and John Fisher are venerated as saints and martyrs in the Catholic church. They had their heads cut off for resisting the Reformation in England. But why on earth are they venerated as martyrs in the Church of England, though? I mean, that's a martyrdom that could have been easily prevented by, you know, just not chopping off their heads in the first place.
You know, there we were trying to be a punk rock band ten years after 1977, which seemed, as we were fully aware, absolutely ludicrous at the time. I don't know if it's more or less ludicrous 42 years after 1977, but it was a lot closer to the "summer of punk" then than we are now to the ten-years-too-late time depicted in that photo. Obviously. So it goes. Hang on to your ludicrousness, it's really all you've got....