Monday, February 02, 2009

Brother JT

Brother JT was a small-time rocker, a local legend that didn't make the big leap. His old band The Original Sins were a garage rock powerhouse. Today he's a more minor figure. But in his introspective obscurity he wrote a substantial rock essay. I say rock essay as you might say rock opera. It's 58 pages long and strings together his ideas about acid rock, Jesus, baseball, Ted Nugent and Miles Davis. He posted it online here.
"Her impossibly nimble, razor-like voice performs a sacred earjob on the listener, carving an explicit dream of dusty tent initiations into your poor brain, while simultaneously rubbing warm balm into the incision, leaving only a scar of involuntary enlightenment."

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