Letters to the Editor
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Top Ten Assassinations
The JFK assassination was so overrated!
Exactly! Totally! That was just what I was thinking.
All these old people going on about how they can remember exactly where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news and stuff, and all I'm thinking is geez, get a life!
True that! They're all like "No one could believe it; we were all just stunned." It sure seems like people were easily stunned back then.
Absolutely! If you're stunned by that, then what does that leave you for when a real assassination comes along?
Exactly.
Martin Luther King, now there's an assassination for you. Hell, even Bobby Kennedy, might have more of an emotional punch. I can see getting all upset and stuff about those, but JFK? It's just such a non-event. I can't believe we're even talking about it.
I know! I'd put Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison all croaking ahead of JFK getting shot any day.
Right! But even that's not a good example because there was this band in Cincinnati called The Whirligigs that was better than all three of them combined, except that nobody knows about them because they only put out one album, and by that I mean only ONE album; one single pressing, one copy. And I met a guy, who knows a guy who actually listened to it once, and that guy said it kicked the shit out of anything The Beatles ever recorded or could even think of recording. And yet no one says they can remember where they were or what they were doing when The Whirligigs broke up. It's ridiculous. Society has everything upside-down.
As a society, we are so hosed. So completely messed up.
It's like, you know, if Syd Barrett had never gone crazy, we wouldn't have to have suffered through the sonic null-zone of "Darkside of the Moon."
Exactly! Roger Waters as the anti-christ! I'm loving it! Will you have sex with me?