remnants: Big Star's Third, March 26, 2011

Big Star remains the mythical beast it was when I first heard about them in the 80s, and rightly so. Folks in San Francisco are posting about last night's tribute show at the Great American Music Hall, which made me remember this particular event from 13 years ago. I was super hopeful that I'd written something about it, and I did but it's super not-great, mostly because of the opening graf ("there is not much to say" - then don't publish this, girlfriend, is what I said to myself as I dug it out of an ancient PDF export from my old blog). But! It does singlehandedly include a video of a moment that is both the most brilliant and the most hilarious onstage interlude I have ever seen, so I am publishing it here for subscribers anyway.

I am off to Chicago tomorrow to promote HOW WOMEN MADE MUSIC (come see us if you're in town!) and there will be a Detroit event the following week. There's a fantastic interview with book editor Alison Fensterstock and Ann Powers on Michigan Public Radio (they're at the 12:15-ish mark) and a nice note in the Detroit News.