In Reply to: So, what, no Jan & Dean fans I guess? posted by nobody on February 23, 2007 at 06:47:49:
I am not so sure everyone's memory is that accurate of what they were doing in the late 60s.
As for the conformity of non-conformists, I remember a brilliant MAD magazine cartoon about the three groups... conformists, non-conformists and the MAD. The conformists carried placards reading "In sameness there is strength". Non-conformists carried placards reading "We're all different together".
In 1968 I saw Frank Zappa at The Albert Hall in London. At one point a 60 year old uniformed attendant came onto the stage for something and was greeted by a chorus of whistling and a chant of "Uniforms off the stage". Zappa walked over to a mike and after commenting of the sheepish nature of people who wear uniforms and conform to societal norms, gaining a large round of applause, asked who was wearing jeans... cheer, who was wearing a T-shirt... CHEER. A moments pause and then he asked "so who's wearing a uniform then, him or you?"
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- Taste and conformity - dave c 12:07:30 02/23/07 (3)
- "Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform, and don't kid yourself." nt - markrohr 04:22:54 02/24/07 (1)
- were you there too? - dave c 14:54:54 02/24/07 (0)
- Re: Taste and conformity - mishmashmusic 14:24:01 02/23/07 (0)