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Theodore Roosevelt And Jerry Garcia: Brothers Under The Skin?
This piece combined two of my interests that are not related to the Chargers. It was originally written for the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) Journal under the title "The Old Lion And Papa Bear." However, it made its way over to American Heritage and was purchased for their website. It appeared there on April 5, 2006. Not everyone approved of my connection between these two figures, but it led to American Heritage purchasing the Hendrix and Springsteen pieces which also appear here.
Theodore Roosevelt And Jerry Garcia: Brothers Under The Skin?
While reading William N. Tilchin’s touching memorial to John Gable in the last TRA Journal, I was instantly forced into a double-take. He recalled that the late Doctor had written him a letter in August of 1995 “that lamented the passing of Jerry Garcia.” I chalked that tidbit up as an interesting anomaly until I later read in Major Gregory A. Wynn’s tribute that Dr. Gable had “attended 13 Grateful Dead concerts. The first was in Providence, RI. The last was in March 1994 in the Nassau Coliseum.” Dr. Gable had apparently verified his show total in his “Commonplace Book,” an idea he had admittedly borrowed from George Washington. These books, whose origins date back to the Renaissance, were originally used to help students understand all the innovations and achievements of the era. Later Commonplace Books of men like Washington and Jefferson contained the words that motivated them and provide historians a unique view of how these figures actually viewed themselves.
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In the Summer of 1975, Bruce Springsteen was backed against the ropes. His first two albums, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., and The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, had been critically but not commercially successful. Jon Landau of Rolling Stone, who famously wrote in 1974 that Springsteen was “rock and roll future,” had taken leave from his job to help him finish his third record. The album, to be named Born to Run, had kept Springsteen in the studio for over a year, and he knew it was his last shot at a breakthrough. But if it was to be his defining statement, he needed an audience to validate it. He got that audience with an electrifying ten-show stand at a 400-seat club in Greenwich Village called the Bottom Line. It would propel him onto the October 27 covers of Time and Newsweek simultaneously and mark a turning point both for his career and for rock music.
Jimi Hendrix Dies--And Lives On
No quality seems to be presently valued in our society as highly as style. “Swag,” is only the most recent adjective for it. Charisma, magnetism, even coolness have all done the job. In 1973, Telly Savalas, who had previously only been known for playing wackos in Birdman of Alcatraz and The Dirty Dozen, brought a new type of cop to television screens. I know, just using “cop” and “television” in the same sentence already sounds like a tired cliché. But Dirty Harry and The French Connection proved that policeman as antiheros worked at the box office.
