-Caveat Lector- THE ROCK DREAMTEAM MAKES LEGENDS COME PLASTIC TRUE
ABR, Judith. 2004. "The Rock Dreamteam Makes Legends Come Plastic True." Internet: CTRL, MFHR. _______________________________________________________ The question is not whether these people exist, because it is evident they do. It is more about the breadth of their work - who and what they have done, going how far back that is the focus of this essay. Rest easy, rock dreamteam, as my evidence is largely theoretical. But, rock fans, listen up because this might shock you. I first noticed something was wrong when I sat down to write an interpretive article about The Who’s rock opera Tommy in 1998. I attempted to explain, in very real terms what Townsend meant by these lyrics and the album’s amazing surreal graphic depictions in paintings. Deep down I realized Townsend could not have accomplished this fantastic compilation without some equally fantastic assistance. What I really realized was they Townsend didn’t write it or conceive of it and I was positive about this. It was simple really, Townsend did not appear to be that amazingly bright in other lyrics, nor did his style of music fit Tommy, nor did I feel at his young age did he have the breadth of knowledge, blues, and music arranging to have accomplished this pivotal, masterwork. Initially I wrote this off as an album solely written and arranged by Sonny Boy Williamson, a very well known, touted original Black blues man. I figured he fed Townsend the info and somehow this album was born. Now I think even Williamson, as well versed as he was about the dark side, did not have the knowledge to come up with all of this. My curiosity now peaked. Then it was on to Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks album, a great departure from his usual balladeer style and instrumentation. And such resonance. It was the lyrics though that got me because they sounded so much like an old Hippie romantic liaison I had adored, his poetry was so much like Dylan’s lyrics and included lines which sounded like my recent history, having traveled recently to Europe and then to Tangier, Morocco to see him ("You See Her Say Hello" has a reference to Tangier). How would my lover have run into Dylan? He did have connections to people in the rock business, even high up, at Rolling Stone Magazine in the mid 1970s. Then I began considering a lot of other rock albums of this era. I knew one thing about it all, whomever was involved behind the scenes in these legendary rock musicians’ work was a powerhouse and absolute masters beyond none at the amplification equipment being used. I also felt confident that I knew what equipment they were using and I believed they were guarding this stuff with their lives because it really does put forth fantastico sound which many Hippie musicians knew about throughout the 60s and 70s. Many of us owned some of this equipment in our apartments, the stuff was so amazing it kept people sane, organized their lives. But this equipment also got vandalized quickly and fast by the 1980s, and many of us learned it was really complex stuff and very difficult to repair that we gave up on it. In the 1980s some newer Japanese electronics firms, like Sanyo, began to produce similar equipment but it was hard to find. It wasn’t until recently that I put more of the real story together. Once I began comparing all these fantastic rock albums that literally made these men legends, I began to realize the threads lead to there being a super genius group behind these legends who were probably living double lives and underground. In envisioned them unable to get air and survive, they sold their genius’ off to all the great super stars one superb album at a time. They picked and chose their groups however and album recording became a science of clandestine work. In order to guard their identities they recorded the albums in unknown places, brought all their own equipment in from the outside and every album was recorded in a new location. People’s names on the covers were bogus and often star musicians falsely claimed writership and playmanship. The rock dream team really did all the recording workmanship. When they stepped into each new location, they commanded the scene from top to bottom. Even the greatest of legends followed all orders, top to bottom. Everything was organized to a tee, rocks stars simply showed up to lay in vocal tracks and learn the riffs. What really gave this scene away to me was the similarity in style and lyric quality (superb) for a great many classic albums. At first I figured out three or four, but after a few days of considering it all, I began to believe it was dozens of albums made after 1969. It may have gone back as far as the Beatles’ White Album; included much of the Stone’s work (Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, assorted tracks on many other albums); Youngbloods (Darkness, Darkness); many of Dylan’s 70s & 80s albums (Blood on the Tracks, Desire, Empire Burlesque, Traveling Wilbury’s); Neil Young’s Landing on Water and Silver and Gold; Patti Smith’s Easter and Horses; Springsteen’s Born to Run; Kink’s Everybody’s a Star and State of Confusion, Tom Petty’s Learning to Fly; Herbie Hancock's Headhunter; John Lennon’s Woman, Nora Jones’ recent album; and lots, lots more. Fueling my beliefs were the titles of these wonderful recordings – many of them catchy adverb phrases or stick-it-to-you single words. Then I began to go over the credits looking for similarities in who was involved. They seemed to have different names on each album but one Greek name kept reappearing and special team names appeared. All of this made sense with my suspicions and shock. So, what makes this so wrong? It is the plagiarism of claiming work which is not yours, this is patently illegal and criminal. It is the fact that the real genius’ aren’t being acknowledged in publicly or probably properly paid. It is the fact that the public may be being mislead and left with false impressions of legendary master rock musicians. This undermines the work of all musicians and artists in rock music. The public has a right to know who the real genius’ are behind these works, especially who really wrote the lyrics and music. Musical arrangements are the third most important bit of info. If I am correct in this theory then none of this is being truthfully portrayed in the liner notes to all of these great masterwork albums. We have a sorry state of affairs with the Rock Dreamteam. On the one hand I am dying to know who they are, how their very secretive group operates and how it has changed over time, why they are living clandestinely, and wanting to reach out to them to love them too. On the other hand, I assume that they are living underground because of good reasons such as they have endured CIA or Lecher stalking assaults because they are such fantastic genius’ and they were driven underground, possibly with suicide raps to survive. Because this team seemed to first appear influencing British Invasion groups, I assume that some of these people had affiliations with these groups earlier on. One such person may be Felix Papalardi, a part of the British rock group Cream (also with Clapton) who went on to work with and arrange The Youngbloods (Navajo rock musicians, probably clan related to Neil Young, circa 1970s) albums in the early 1970s. Papalardi might have either been involved with the Dreamteam or threatened to open up this story in May, 1983 when he reportedly died of a gun shot wound to the neck in his Manhattan apartment. He might be one of the music arrangers, managers of the team now. Another possibility is Jim Capaldi of Traffic, who is considered a good poet and may be moonlighting on the sly with the boys. Then I come back to my old Hippie boyfriend who admits he is living half underground and half above ground these days, he is still writing poetry and still has ties to the rock community legends. Of one thing I am sure now this team goes back to the 60s, could even include Buddy Holly or people affiliated with the beat generation (Keroac, Burroughs, Ginsberg), it probably includes people who Brian Epstein of the Beatles knew. It is my guess that Epstein was not involved with the team though. I suspect the genius’ came not from the gay community but from Christian, Greek, Italian and even Arab influences and those that have these bloodlines. >From the timing, the Dreamteam was developing complex rock albums early on (Tommy and Everybody’s a Star) with complete themes, this indicates the team had mature, complex, vision and direction. Thus the earliest members of these albums were probably at least ten older than the bands who recorded the sounds and very hip. By now these men would be over 70 and probably some of the deceased. This might account for why the legendary rock musicians are not producing as many fine albums at this time. Disclosing the truth to this story may be dangerous as many of these legends will defend fiercely their reputations. This leaves the public with a sorry empty wallet of grief. In biographies and future writings perhaps we will be filled in more. Until that time I grieve for those I never learned about to in ways thank them for making my life a great deal more meaningful in their quiet absence. __________________________________________ Museum for Human Rights URL (mfhr.org) is not accessible until July 9th, its domain name is changing. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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