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http://www.geocities.com/thoea2004/thej ... lshow.html
Just reading or I should say rereading the Burroughs “interview” with jimmy page from 72 or 73 in crawdaddy can you belave that name well after all it was the 70s and well you know
But in the interview brouurgs has some interesting things to say not only about rock music and magic but I think about himself and his role as a priest and magician
Two roles that he says Rock musicians are or at least were back then
Not strange when you think that the man who named so many rock bands was and is himself one of the greatest rock stars of all time

http://renegadefuturist.com/archives/20 ... versation/
An other interesting interview from the early 70s
in which Burroughs talks with an early David Bowie
I have always found Bowie to be the most Bourroughasc of rock stars
Bowie made a tremendous use of Cut-Ups in his writing in the late 70s
and would go on to say that Bourroughs was a great influence on him

please dont mention bowie in the same breath as WSB..read the lester bangs article "stationtostation"..bowie admitted to reading some of nova express, then basically stealing the concept for his "diamond dogs", dont get me wrong i admire the dames ability to pilfer willy nilly from most art forms...but to say what you do..i cannot let it lie!!!
rock is way behind literature, regardless of reeds attempts, so all they can do is nick stuff..i mean have you ever heard Dead Fingers Talk?? in my opinion.

It is not what rock has taken from Bourroughs that I am so much interested in but how Bourroughs has used the medium and in a scene become a part of it. Though Burroughs him self was not a musician He was able to use Rock by identifying with it and and using it to spread his own ideas which in turn have become part of rock iconography the “interview” with Jimmy Page is a good example he spends most of the piece not interviewing Page, we are told at the start that this is pointless. But co-opting Page and turning him into the ultimate HeavyMetallazerbowinghornedMoroccanGod and Page for his part is all to happy to be given this mantel from The Old Gray Gentlemen.
This “interview” is more about Burroughs then it is about Page. Burroughs is up to being the master of multiple realitys here laying one down and cuting up an other and folding them all in on themselves and drawing out of it a myth that is larger then even Led Zeppelin which is fitting because in so many ways he created them and there world years before they ever played a note

I think you should change your name to dragonpone or dragonpwn. Because everytime I try reading your name, that's how I initially pronounce it. (which is not attacking you or your choice of name, on the contrary, i think dragonpwn is just fine)

Thank's I like That

i read this years ago, probably when it was first published. i believe i reread it sometime at this forum too; and still there are parts i don't remember.

Bowie: How do you take the picture that people paint of you?
Burroughs: They try to categorize you. They want to see their picture of you and if they don't see their picture of you they're very upset.

http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Appearan ... interview/

the same could be said of Bill and Joseph Conrad... or ______ from the Dadaist school for coopting the Cut Up method.

Bad artists copy, great artists steal.