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I feel like I’m picking up on the beatnik-intellectual role I was likely destined for, until the British Invasion intervened. I still believe in r’n'r, but the universe is too big & my clock’s too small, I gotta KNOW about all this jazz (and classical too) before it gets too dark.

Cheers,
Richard R.

I take you at your word that you had no agenda other than confronting the facts of Nelson’s work and their meaning; not only that, I don’t completely disagree with you about the “tropes of male heroism” in Paul’s stuff. That said, a fondness for Sam Peckinpah movies and a disinclination to write about Joni Mitchell are hardly the stuff of National Socialism.

Best,
Steve Simels

Thanks for your comment, as your first-hand clarification of your review is exactly what we need here.

At the outset, let me clear the deck of any possible “agenda” of my own. I read and liked your biography of my fellow Ohioan Billy Strayhorn back in the ’90s. And now I can thank you for impelling me to go ahead with purchasing my own copy of Kevin Avery’s book, rather than waiting for it to show up at the public library, so that I could try to see for myself where your relative negativity toward Paul Nelson had come from.

Though we obviously knew some people in common (notably Lester Bangs) during my own years as a rock critic, my only contact with Paul Nelson was that he was apparently the editor who published the one record review I ever sent to Circus magazine. I rarely followed his own writings, which seemed old-folkie/previous-generation to me, compared to the Bangs-Meltzer school of rockcrit I pursued.

The aspect of your review which has most disturbed me is your sensational comparison of Paul Nelson to the German filmmaker and of course Nazi accomplice Leni Riefenstahl. To me,”Nazi” similes and metaphors are used much too often in American pop culture. As someone of predominantly German ancestry, someone who’s forever looking for further symbolic ways to desecrate Hitler’s evil grave, I want “Nazi” reserved for the actual thugs of the Third Reich. I wouldn’t vote for Newt Gingrich if he were the last candidate on earth, but to me he’s not a “Nazi” by any stretch of the imagination, albeit a latter-day right-winger.

Now that I’ve read Kevin Avery’s book, I find your comparison of Paul Nelson to Leni Riefenstahl even more troubling. How exactly was Nelson a “propagandist” of “disreputable, even dangerous ideas”? He may have preferred music and movies with white male protagonists, rather than blacks or women, but this was his expression of his personal taste rather than an endorsement of some dogmatic conservative doctrine. And I have great difficulty in regarding someone who walked away from his job as record-review editor at Rolling Stone, and then from his proposed bio of Neil Young, as a “propagandist” — a true propagandist wouldn’t throw away such influential outlets.

After reading and giving some thought to the biographical section of Avery’s book, I’ve been wondering whether Paul Nelson’s apparent tunnel vision in appreciating only white male protagonists wasn’t yet another aspect of his obsessive-compulsive disorder. Someone who had to have hamburgers at every meal, and wouldn’t eat at all if they weren’t on the menu, may have felt similar rigidity about exploring artists outside his comfort zone. To me, that makes Nelson a sad character whose “dangerous ideas” harmed only himself. And once again, how exactly did that make him a “Bad Boy” of rock criticism?

In conclusion, this Kraut-ancestried commenter finds a nice irony in your choice of Leni Riefenstahl as the specific dangerous idealist with which to tar Paul Nelson, as after escaping a serious postwar sentence for her collaboration with the Nazis, Riefenstahl spent many years living with and photographing the Nuba and other African peoples. I’ve always wondered whether her latter-life embrace of black Africa was at least partly driven by her guilt over her earlier celebrations of the racist Nazis. Thus, to compound the irony, Riefenstahl actually did some of the racial penance you evidently wish on Nelson. Getting Fraulein Leni to listen to Aretha Franklin’s records might have been a stretch, though.

Thank you again for acknowledging this discussion thread, David. I would appreciate it further if you could not “debate,” but rather address, some of the questions I’ve raised above.

Best,
Richard