Men Briefly Explained by Tim Jones

Author:Tim Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)

Baxter-Curnow Band Live At Hyde Park 1969

Nobody smiles on the gatefold sleeve

(though that might be a smirk from the drummer) —

this is art, not pop, from the summer when love

curdled to discontent.

It surely wasn’t easy,

playing behind those two:

Curnow always demanding, Baxter

perfecting the prophet’s penetrating stare.

Four sides, nine tracks,

no singles and no flash photography.

Over-long, we’d call it nowadays, overblown —

cowbell and mellotron, zither, Hammond organ,

Marshall stacks and London Philharmonic;

odd metres, broken rhythms, two voices

straining for harmony, their differences

as much musical as personal.

Within six months it would all be over,

Allen going solo, Jim

in a different hemisphere, getting his head

together in the country.

Let this stand as their monument,

these two vinyl slabs

of pretension and achievement.

Lift the tone arm. Lower the needle.

Be transported back

to granny glasses, new-mown grass,

two voices high and rising

above the restless crowd.

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