"Desperate Rock'N'Roll" Vol. 11

...It's interesting that customizers like sports-car fans,..
...have always wanted cars minus most of the chrome - but but for different ideals. The sports-car owner thinks chrome trim interferes with the "classic" look of his car. In other words, he wants to simplify the thing. The customizer thinks chrome interferes with something else - the lixurious baroque Streamline. The sports-car people snigger at tailfins. The customizers love them and, looked at from baroque standard of beauty, they are really not so trashy at all. They are an inspiration, if you will, a wonderful fantasy extension of the curved line, and since the car in America is half fantasy anyway, a kind of baroque extension of the ego, you can build up a good argument for them. Getting back to Easter Island, here were Barris and the others with their blowtorches and hard-rubber mallets, creating their baroque sculpture, cut off from the rest of the world and publicized almost solely via the teen-age grapevine. Barris was making a fairly good living, but others were starving at this thing. The pattern was always the same: a guy would open a body shop and teke on enough hack collision work to pay the rent so that he could slam the door shut at 2p.m. and get in there and do his custom jobs, and pretty soon the guy got so he couldn't even face any collision work. Dealing with all those crusty old arteriosclerotic bastards takes up all your time, man, and so they're trying to make a living doing nothing but custom work, and they are starving... (excerpt from "the candy kolored tangerine flake streamline baby" by Tom Wolfe to be continued...)
traxfromwax:
1. Arnold Parker - Find A New Baby 2. Billy Mize - Planet Named Desire 3. Wee Willie & The Pals - We're Gonna Dance 4. Savoys - Mortal Monster Man 5. Bobby Wall - Baby It's Too Much 6. Ray-O-Vacs - Party Time 7. Wayne Busbice - Goin' Back To Dixie 8. Jack Jolly - Club Delight 9. George Garrish - All Night Diner 10. Artie Dillon - In My Teens 11. Carl Trantham - Where There's A Will (There's A Way) 12. Bop-Kats - Baby, Baby 13. James Wallis - Sheet Board Down 14. Big Brown - Menin Aeide Thea 15. Luke Askew - The Bells 16. Floyd Dakil - Dance Franny Dance 17. Wild Bill Taylor - Little Jewell 18. Roy Brown - Rocking All The Time 19. George Weston - I Need You Baby 20. Eddie Con Los Shades - Dime Sime Vas A Ver
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