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inspired by Michael G's post below, and by my own listening to Endless Wire. 
When I was thirteen or so, my family had a guy named Joe stay with us, for a year, to finish his senior year of high school, since his parents had moved. My brother and I had a rather difficult relationship by then, and I really looked up to Joe. It was around 1972, and he was kind of the entrance of the "hippie generation" into our suburban, Baptist churchgoing home. Joe was the first person I knew who owned Who's Next. I don't remember listening to it, though maybe I did. I do remember seeing it in his room, not knowing at the time that they had pissed on the obelisk, just not seeing them zipping up. I did know that I was looking at an icon, of sorts, a representation of a way to live which I hadn't encountered yet. I was a fat kid from the suburbs, and music jjst wasn't important to me yet. The connection I remembered the other day is with 2001 A Space Odyssey. I had gone to see that in the theatre, when it came out a couple of years before, and it had a profound effect on me. Somehow, one of those slightly mystical "cosmic resonances", not to get too high-falutin', was made between the concrete pillar on the cover of Who's Next, and the obelisk in 2001. I really don't remember whether I heard any of the music at that point, since I hadn't really discovered music as a love in my life yet. (That was to happen later, with a now slightly embarrassing album - the first Boston album) All I knew, at the time, was that when I looked at the cover of Who's Next, I knew I was looking at something that had the potential to change my life in a revolutionary way, similar to the way the obelisk in 2001 "makes" the monkeys evolve into humans. And music has that potential, and it transforms my life and the way I look at the world, thirty four years after I fitst saw the cover of Who's Next.
When I was thirteen or so, my family had a guy named Joe stay with us, for a year, to finish his senior year of high school, since his parents had moved. My brother and I had a rather difficult relationship by then, and I really looked up to Joe. It was around 1972, and he was kind of the entrance of the "hippie generation" into our suburban, Baptist churchgoing home. Joe was the first person I knew who owned Who's Next. I don't remember listening to it, though maybe I did. I do remember seeing it in his room, not knowing at the time that they had pissed on the obelisk, just not seeing them zipping up. I did know that I was looking at an icon, of sorts, a representation of a way to live which I hadn't encountered yet. I was a fat kid from the suburbs, and music jjst wasn't important to me yet. The connection I remembered the other day is with 2001 A Space Odyssey. I had gone to see that in the theatre, when it came out a couple of years before, and it had a profound effect on me. Somehow, one of those slightly mystical "cosmic resonances", not to get too high-falutin', was made between the concrete pillar on the cover of Who's Next, and the obelisk in 2001. I really don't remember whether I heard any of the music at that point, since I hadn't really discovered music as a love in my life yet. (That was to happen later, with a now slightly embarrassing album - the first Boston album) All I knew, at the time, was that when I looked at the cover of Who's Next, I knew I was looking at something that had the potential to change my life in a revolutionary way, similar to the way the obelisk in 2001 "makes" the monkeys evolve into humans. And music has that potential, and it transforms my life and the way I look at the world, thirty four years after I fitst saw the cover of Who's Next.
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