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your high school books contain dozens of potential amazing popstars . which is your favourite? and why? mine is of course elagabalus ,the greatest teen big thing of roman empire(thanx to antonin artaud,albertoarbasino and momus for revalueting him)

― francesco, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my twentieth century history textbook had a picture of the velvet underground in it.

― ethan, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Vaclav Havel- Vocal
Charles de Gaulle - Guitar
Kruschev-Drum

― anthony, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nicola Tesla as populist IDM laptop auteur.

Frank Lloyd Wright as opinionated taste-maker of midwestern Alt- Country.

R. Buckminster Fuller as the Joe Meek of music software engineering for the early 21st century.

― Michael Taylor, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm sure that a few Czech high school history books will have pictures of Frank Zappa and Lou Reed, if Mr. Havel has any say in the matter.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"...& over there, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes! mmm, nice!"

― duane, Sunday, 5 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Adolf Hitler would have wanted to have been in a free noise band as a youth. I mean, today. Not then. Today. But rejected by the free noise fraternity, he went on to create Radiohead.

― maryann, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Actually, Hitler painted still-lifes, which were pretty cliche and corny at the time he was a painter (he would have been competing with the likes of Kandinsky and the impressionists, if memory serves me right). He had a life-long dislike for less "realist" and more abstract forms of art, such as expressionism or Russian avant-garde stuff.

Ergo, no free-noise music for Adolf. He'd be jamming to Ocean Colour Scene, Oasis, and matchbox 20.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blue Reiter, The Dadaists, Kadinsky.
In fact what is interesting is how thourghly and quickly Hitler destroyed culture which would be dangerous to him.

― anthony, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Caligula - whip master for the VU.

― Geoff, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tadeusz - you're putting in relation figurative painting and classical harmonies vs abstract painting and atonal composition/improvisation .nice but from an other point of view it's quite the opposite: figurative painting has a "reference"( of course it's more complex than this) in the outside world ,the world out of the text, and music got abstract to incorporae outside's world sound in it and to put an end to the too conservative internal referencing system . duane- yeah adolf in an exotica ensemble ! this could be a boyd rice or residents cd cover (or they have already thiught about it?)

― francesco, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Dadaists already count as rock stars.

Louis XIV, glam rock extraordinaire.

― Lyra, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Che Guevara WAS a rockstar, in a sense... the Beatles got the long hair thing from him.

― Andy, Monday, 6 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Byron & Shelley would be the Mick & Keef of their day (but which is which?) with Mary Shelley being Marianne Faithfull/Anita Pallenberg.

Samson would probably be some obnoxious rock monster.

Socrates would be the Eno of his day - hyper-intelligent but kind of annoying. Alkibiades, meanwhile, would be pangendered androgyne pop tart.

Toussaint L'Ouverture as Chuck D to Christophe's Ice Cube and Dessalines' Eazy E.

― The Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 7 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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