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Archive for September 21st, 2007

Ralph J. Gleason (YouTube)

Posted by s woods on September 21, 2007

I swear I’m not trying to turn this into YouTube central, but some of these clips are irresistible. David Aron in the comments box for the Ben Fong-Torres post a few days ago pointed me to another early ’70s gem from his YouTube channel: Ralph J. Gleason. In the first clip Gleason talks briefly about the “effect on American society of rock ‘n’ roll”; in the second clip he talks briefly about drugs.

[David notes that the interviews on his YouTube channel are "from a 4 part Danish documentary on the American counter culture revolution aired in Europe in the early 70’s."]

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Dave Marsh on ‘Later With Bob Costas,’ 1988 (YouTube)

Posted by s woods on September 21, 2007

Pretty great interview, despite both interviewer and interviewee looking a bit ghostly. Marsh is best in part one, talking about the credentials of mall girls (though of course he’d have been wiser to say that it’s “their music” as well as “guys with pencils music” rather than suggesting instead of).

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