http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/07/literary-meltdowns/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/07/literary-meltdowns/comment-page-1/#comment-36531 Wed, 04 Sep 2013 01:14:18 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9048#comment-36531 Only reason I can see for an author to “lose it” is when he realizes that he’s on the verge of being “FOUND OUT” — that he’s only a writer and not actually an expert on the subject of his book.

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2013/07/literary-meltdowns/comment-page-1/#comment-36407 Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:11:01 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=9048#comment-36407 I’ll see your Gaslight Anthem and raise you one Who performance at the Isle Of Wight festival in 1970… Our lads were blasting along in their usual warp 7 style (all you modern day sorta-rockers might want to make note that most of your serious velociraptor guitarists from back in the day only used one or two floor pedals for three times the sound) and at the climax of the concert Peter Townshend’s fuzz box and amp feeds blew out and the concert abruptly ended after one last, dying power chord. Pete slammed his Gibson SG to the stage and stormed offstage, knocking a drunken Jim Morrison out of the way in the wings. Unfortunately, the film version of this concert of this has been spliced to look like everything was hunky-dory, although it was one of the great rock moments of history. I believe you can still get the uncompressed complete concert on CD. That last dying chord (as well as the sputtering fail before ) is somehting to hear. Literary meltdowns? Truman Capote, Stephen King before intervention, take your pick. (although frankly Stevie did some of his best stuff while wacked out of his mind, so whatever)

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