This here Moonshoes “If You Want to Do It” video/single item definitely correlates (in its way) with one of the most unexpectedly delightful prizes ever to emerge from both the notorious K-Tel label and Robert Christgau’s Village Voice Consumer Guide column, in 1996— Robert Christgau— Roller Disco: Boogie from the Skating Rinks [K-Tel, 1996] Was there such a thing as roller …
Thought you might enjoy this early Christgau piece (Village Voice, Jan. 1970, see attachment), which makes some interesting points and distinctions re: what you and I now refer to as “Conceptual Panache”, and about the late-Sixties Music Biz more generally! It’s also a nicely tart summary of the terminal phase of “Super Group Syndrome”, taken …
Have I already shared this particular Christgau/Dibbell-penned oddity with you? At any rate, it’s from the May 1975 issue of long-lost U.S. soft porn mag Oui, and I’m betting that Bob & Carola got a pretty paycheck in the mail when all was said and done, those being the days when "slick" print journalism still paid! …
7/01/2010 – from the great Tom Kipp: I always suspected ol’ Bob would bow out in the anniversary month of CG. [July 1969 seems longer ago than EVER right now.] And, after the conversation we had about Consumer Guide in 2006, driving back to his hotel from Greil and Jenny Marcus’ dinner party at the …