tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505022452508665567.post6731563111985985921..comments2024-03-28T02:53:44.198-07:00Comments on RETROMANIA: SIMON REYNOLDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505022452508665567.post-50398185391566417312013-03-18T18:30:43.461-07:002013-03-18T18:30:43.461-07:00Not so sure about this theory. Seems like it doesn...Not so sure about this theory. Seems like it doesn't take much wading beneath the surface of the better-known jawns of the late psyche/early prog era to recognize that this was the standard modus of the day. Maybe you could blame Iron Butterfly if you were blame anyone, but it was common currency. (FFS, even Chicago -- the band, not the city -- were doing this, too. Grand Funk Railroad, King Crimson...EVERYBODY. It was some some "let us take you on a journey" type thing, until everyone switched from weed & acid to cocaine, at which point -- of course! -- the trend immediately ended.) <br /><br />From some interview with Harlan Ellison I read decades ago, I remember talking about how really long titles for sci-fi stories and novels were a trend around that same time, too. Which made sense, seeing how at the time he was giving his own stories titles like "The Beast Who Shouted Love at the Heart of the World," and "Somewhere at the Center of the Universe, Someone Has Left the Bottle of the Universe Open and Its Memory Has Gone Flat," and other such biz.<br /><br />That and the way Joseph Heller and Thomas Pynchon would (over)write back in those days. It's like nobody had invented ADD yet.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Greyhooshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14161781141733273715noreply@blogger.com