{"id":2568,"date":"2010-02-19T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:38:02","slug":"consult-the-orockle-questions-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/consult-the-orockle-questions-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Consult the Orockle: Questions We’d Like to Have Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The wisdom of The Hall continues to amaze me. For as many knowledgeable individuals who dazzle with their rock knowledge, it is the collective<\/em> wisdom of our participants that I find most dazzling.<\/p>\n

It is in this spirit that I want to allow for further amazement—not only for<\/em> the people but by<\/em> the people. I was going to try to turn this into my own original post, maybe even do a few minutes of research on the Web, but then I thought better of it. Instead, I’d like to pose a question to the collective wisdom of The Orockle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The question I’d like to pose – and one that I hope will inspire other questions we’d like to have asked when we had more time to find the answers ourselves – will follow a little bit of background. Read on, please.
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\nMy wife was having a stressful start to her week, and lo and behold, while we were away last weekend she recorded one of her favorite pick-me-up movies was on TCM, Pillow Talk<\/em>. She watched it and felt much better. She was still stressed out the next night, so she watched it again. I’d seen this movie, at least in bits and pieces, many times over the years with her. After being terrified of Doris Day<\/strong> for ages, I finally warmed up to her charms after watching Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/em>, a Hitchcock film that has risen to the top of my list of his films, for the sixth time. Anyhow, now when Pillow Talk<\/em> or some other movie with Day’s giant, bleached head shows up on TV I don’t feel like jumping out a window. Pillow Talk<\/em> is a well-done movie, and watching it the other night with my wife I realized how great Rock Hudson<\/strong> is in it. This has been old hat since he died of AIDS in 1985, but the way Hudson plays a straight guy playing a gay guy etc is fascinating. He does it all so well, and it doesn’t hurt that he’s the rare big man who’s both “manly” – towering over his co-stars with that square jaw, broad shoulders, and an obvious need to shave in the morning and the evening – and an honest-to-goodness “pretty boy.” How many hulking 6′ 5″ guys also get to be pretty? But I digress.<\/p>\n

While watching Hudson’s performance I kept trying to think if he’d ever discussed what was going on in his mind while playing this subversive role. I’m pretty sure no such interview exists. Didn’t he die reluctant or refusing to admit that he had AIDS and had been homosexual? It would have been great to hear from him what went into his Hollywood image, his performance in that movie, and what it all meant to him, but we can only imagine. Now onto the musical<\/em> question that I’m not sure has ever been asked but that sprang to my mind the day after watching Pillow Talk<\/em> yet again…<\/p>\n

What went into the making of “She’s a Rainbow,” by The Rolling Stones?<\/em><\/strong> I don’t recall ever reading anything about the recording of the Stones’ brief forays into psychedelia. It seems rare that anything is ever written about how<\/em> the Stones recorded all their great records. There’s no Mark Lewisohn book chronicling the day-by-day recording sessions for even a single Stones album<\/a>, is there?<\/p>\n

“She’s a Rainbow” is a weird song, especially for the Stones. It’s nothing but a chorus and those instrumental segments for the first three cycles of the song. How many songs begin with nothing but three choruses and instrumental breaks? Who’s playing piano, Nicky Hopkins<\/strong>? More importantly, who in the Stones came up with the idea for that arrangement? I can’t imagine Keef<\/strong> or Mick<\/strong> even attempting to bang out a rudimentary frame for those piano breaks. So I ask the Orockle, in part because I’m too busy to research this stuff for myself, Have the Stones ever commented on the making of that song?<\/em> <\/p>\n

As the Orockle ponders my question, please feel free to leave your own musical questions that you wish someone had asked. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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