I've been looking for a local excuse to bring this up, as I've been enjoying it so, and I've finally found it.
Last week, I bought the best online product I've ever seen: Dallas-based Woot was selling a DVD-ROM set of every single page of every single issue of Rolling Stone from inception to May 1997, for less than half-price.
I've been working my way through, issue by issue, taking screenshots to add to my TV screensaver. And I've found a fun Dallas connection in the April, 1968 issue:
See, in the early issues, it was de riguer to reference The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Dallas-native and St. Mark's alum Steve Miller in every issue. I'd always thought of Steve Miller as more of a 70's phenom, but apparently there were a lot of chips on him in the late 60's.
In the April, 1968 issue, Miller lets forth with a screed decrying London's "superficial" music scene. He finds Traffic to be the only band worth quibbling with and dismisses Beatles producer George Martin as "too expensive, and not quite in our scene."
Miller fears the decline of English groups, saying that they do "queer bits in their underwear to get attention."
Abracadabra.
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Kevin Kunreuther Verified
I can only guess that Steve Miller witnessed an early performance of Tyrannosaurus Rex, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown or the early David Bowie troop, Feathers.
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