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TUPELORE or A Dead Baby Only a Mother Could Love
by Super Tupelo.
For 42 years underground tastes were popular in America. So popular
that they are identified with one man: Elvis Aron Presley. For Elvis is
not just the King of Rock 'n' Roll, he is the King of Pop Culture.
But I would also argue the quiet influence of his stillborn
brother Jesse Garon in being just as identifiable. In pursuit of higher
and higher levels of 'Elvis Understanding'.(E Levels of VIS"; The Eight
Interpretative Studies.) I am tempted to refer to Elvis as "they" from
time to time as 'he' only reflects half.
In the mid-fifties an unholy trinity of evil comic books, bad
movies, and sinful rock 'n' roll challenged your Mother's Mothers cozy
assumptions of morality (and more and often than not found her
wanting.) The space race with it's Apolloniac pull to the stars was
still fueled and funded by mere mortals with carbon coils and
fascinations peculiar to the Earth. Outer space was not the final
destination. Inner space 'is'. Our final note is like our first:
Distortion and white light unto which we are delivered.
Before Elvis could be delivered into uncircum-sin he found something dead in his way: a twin brother.
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(Official Publicity for Ziggy's first
Memphis appearance. circa 1972)
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