tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post5248616514629599997..comments2023-12-21T07:05:42.464-05:00Comments on Erik's Choice: Gimme ShelterErik Donald Francehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02332500850365598564noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-973974794951808362007-03-17T10:36:00.000-05:002007-03-17T10:36:00.000-05:00I was always a much bigger fan of the Stones than ...I was always a much bigger fan of the Stones than the Beetles, largely because of that edge of darkness there. Altamont really did reveal the shadowed underside of the love generation.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-83816283265465535842007-03-17T10:08:00.000-05:002007-03-17T10:08:00.000-05:00It's amazing how that song captures the zeitgeist ...It's amazing how that song captures the zeitgeist of that time perfectly. <BR/><BR/>The History Channel just had a thing on Kent State a few days ago. They had one of the National Guardsmen, one who hadn't actually fired on the students, explaining how some bad tactical errors on the part of the Guard commander had left a bunch of Guardsmen in a position in which they were surrounded by rock-throwing students and damned scared. After all the finger-pointing over the years, I've gone from anger at the guardsmen to anger over the people who put them there, and anger over the people who were continuing the Vietnam War<BR/>.Johnny Yenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06561248220244037567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22752109.post-30905448625890312402007-03-16T21:54:00.000-05:002007-03-16T21:54:00.000-05:00Wow! Very fluid, connected post. Perhap Neil You...Wow! Very fluid, connected post. Perhap Neil Young could've been worked in there too. Then again, I ask too much.JR's Thumbprintshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10479324326541901987noreply@blogger.com