In the days following September 11, 2001, David Fricke (unquestionably one of the best go-to guys at Rolling Stone) wrote a fantastic, heartfelt piece on music as "shelter from the storm":
In my lowest moments, though, I keep turning to something without words: Jimi Hendrix’s performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Woodstock in 1969, a fireball of confusion, distress, bloodied optimism and questions, played early one morning over a field of debris for a raggedy band of survivors walking, exhausted, into a new, uncertain world. I play it, soak in it. Then I get up and just keep walking.
Check out the whole article here.
Posted on 09/11/2006
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that was an amazing article.
my favourite bits:
"in music, as in any art, context is everything. the who, how and when of reception are as critical as the who, how and why of creation."
"i understand the need in others right now for the epic lift and warm sugar of a knockout power ballad. i’ve had to look elsewhere. it took me three days, well into september 13th, before i could bear to listen to a single note of music."
"i play it, soak in it. then i get up and just keep walking."
lucy *