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Archive for November 27th, 2007
Question of the Week: Which Rock Journalist,
Posted by A.C. Rhodes on November 27, 2007
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More on Robert Palmer (Mary Katherine Aldin)
Posted by s woods on November 27, 2007
Mary Katherine Aldin writes:
I was sent the link to your site by a fellow music writer who knew that Bob and I had been friends for the last 15 years of his life.
I’d been thinking about Bob a lot the past few days, as the anniversary of his death rolled around and yet another year went by without him. Nobody will ever know how lucky I was to have this incredibly special person as a friend. He had the most open ears of anyone I’ve ever known, and did his best to pry mine loose (without, I’m sorry to say, ever really succeeding). “What the HELL is that noise?” I’d ask as he played some foreign-sounding stuff in a language I didn’t recognize. “Oh, Mary Katherine, it’s pygmy rain chants,” he’d reply, evidently expecting me to react as if it was the Holy Grail, which maybe to him it was. I’m a four-four person, and he was way out there in the land of seven-nine where I knew I was never going to be able to follow. Fortunately, he spoke my language even though I couldn’t speak his, so we communicated in what was probably the musical equivalent of baby-talk to him, although he was always too kind to say so.
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