Tuesday, May 6, 2008

French Symbolist Rock! (from Cleveland)























Nevertheless, there it was, land with its noises, its passions,

all its wares and its festivities; it was a dazzling, a magnificent

land full of promises, and from which a mysterious perfume of

musk and roses came drifting out to us, like an amorous
whisper,
the myriad music of life.


Charles Baudelaire
"Already!"
from Paris Spleen, 1869.

Download:

"Baudelaire" mp3
by Peter Laughner, 1975.
available on Take the Guitar Player for a Ride
out of print

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

forerunner to symbolists sounds cooler.

Anonymous said...

Pete was not much of a rocker, enthused yes, but live, he was weak. But the legend is bigger than his talent ever was. I saw him perform many times in Cleveland in the 70s. And he sure was no Lester Bangs. Kind of sad, really. RIP Pete...

Anonymous said...

Pete was a force for getting disparate characters together through music art; he did a spirited "Stop Breakin Down" with the Mr Stress Blues Band at the Brick Cottage on Euclid Ave., a rockingly hilarious version of the 13th Floor Elevators Fire Engine at the Cellar Door. Baudelaire in a blue work shirt playing guitar in Cleveland. Can you dig it?