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So here's us, on the raggedy edge.
Stand on a bridge before the cavern of night / Darkness alive with possibility / Nose to this wind full of twinkling lights / Trying to catch the scent of what's coming to be (in this...) — Bruce Cockburn, World of Wonders |
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Before Wilco, there was U2. One of the most famous performances of the greatest rock and roll song of the 1980s (despite that silly CBC 50 Tracks survey that chose With or Without You from the The Joshua Tree.)
As with so much great art, Bad was born from torment. It’s a song given birth by the plague of heroin that Dublin suffered in the mid 80s, not that different from the one that’s ongoing in Vancouver.
Last night I attended an art fund raiser on Granville Island where the catering company served shrimp on lemon gazpacho filled skewers. The idea was that you tipped your head back, ate the shrimp then squeezed the skewer to get the liquid into your mouth.
It was so downtown eastside, it was tragic. I met a couple of people who wer bright enough, and on top of it enough to get the irony…I suspect there were many more who just didn’t.
Posted by skooter at 4:25 PM
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This entry is tagged: Downtown Eastside, Heroin, Irish Music, Live Aid, Rock and Roll, U2