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May 24, 2006
Will Butler of Arcade Fire guestblogging on Said the Gramophone
Will Butler guestblogging about Czech history and Rock n' Roll over at Said the Gramophone. Specifically when the communist regime was overthrown:
"...[R]esistance to the Communist government, which is ultimately toppled by student demonstrations snowballing into everyone demonstrations in 1989. They call the revolution "The Velvet Revolution" because it’s non-violent and everything goes so smoothly. And also because the leaders of the opposition were really into the Velvet Underground. I’m not kidding. Absurdist playwright Vaclav Havel becomes president and in his first month invites Frank Zappa to the presidential castle as a guest of state (US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Shirley Temple Black (yes, that Shirley Temple) meets him at the airport and asks him how his daughter Moon Unit is doing). Later on in the year he has Lou Reed come as an official state visitor and play songs with the Plastic People of the Universe, who are totally stoked about it." - Will Butler (Link via Said the Gramophone).
Tags: Will Butler, Arcade Fire, Czech Republic, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed
Posted by Merry Swankster at May 24, 2006 05:07 AM
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