Jimmy Page visits Cuba and buys Che memorabilia…..no word if he met with Gorki…no word if he met with any roqueros or former UMAP inmates. But does look like he met with regime-sanctioned rockers….guess it could have been worse. He could have performed in Cuba in the grand tradition of Stephen Stills, Bonie Raitt, Billy Joel, Jimmy Buffet, etc. etc. etc.
Unreal
…and to blazes he can go, an old man fecklessly trying to relive his late 60s/early 70s glory daze, when he and his druggie pals waltzed over here, wrecked the careers of far more talented, decent, rock ‘n roll musicians, and pimped off their peculiar brand of narco-toons.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I’m too young and too fair to be so cynical. Right. I agree. But look, plenty of us who were teens during that era did not live for the next welter of gee-tar gassoff from this motley bunch.
Jimi Hendrix was yet among us when the Zepp’s were making their big splash, and he didn’t advocate being a drug-addled leftist. Hendrix had served with the 101st Airborne until a serious injury experienced while parachuting disqualified him from further military service. Hendrix and as well Bob Dylan were not political, despite the fact many listeners projected their own beliefs onto them. Hendrix advocated putting aside differences, appreciating music, and expressed love for his country, distint from the UK/druggie bunch and their slick hollywood promoters who reveled in vomiting their PC bile all over us.
Page & Plant think castro is such a swell guy? Great! Maybe they should stick around after their concerts and put in for assigned ‘housing’ in fidel’s gulag. They’ll love it when the water truck comes by with their daily ration.
They’ll really like it when fidel cuts off their electricity and packs them off to the canefields.
They can take the express elevator to blazes, all I care. Their music was morose, depressing, and phony, just like the left. Ordinarily, I like morose, depressing music, but only when it’s sincere.