Hot news and politics, plus excerpt from new Sinead O'Connor memoir and the time Dylan fans booed her off stage--plus music from Sinead, Bonnie Raitt, Bo Diddley, and Bruce Springsteen.
Thank you for the Bo DIddley /Bonnie Raitt duo which I'd never heard! Thinking about the Michael Beschloss question, i wonder if you've ever seen the short-lived series Dark Skies. The seriously bizarre GrossLuegenKrankheit Syndrome is veering into territory so incomprehensible that explanations like those in that X-Files-wannabe seem almost imaginable. Tobe Hooper directed the pilot and the opening credits were a marvel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQPsmgJIwo (and brilliant supporting character actor JT Walsh had an ongoing role that warranted watching) even if the series itself didn't make the grade. "history as we know it is a lie" rings even more bizarrely today amidst our learning from a poll CNN reported last night that 15% of Americans believe in conspiracy theories that I will not name so not to attract trolls to your great substack blog.
I remember the billboards for "Dark Skies" but never watched it--as you say, reviews were not kind. Would be looked on more favorably today, no doubt....
O'Connor's performance of "I Believe in You" (one of my favorite Dylan songs) was transcendent. Thank you so much for unearthing it!
A version was included in a re-mastered album of the Dylan Tribute as well--so she got to be included there, belatedly.....
Yes, I found it on Tidal and saved it to my "ultimate" playlist. Thanks again! Keep on truckin' -- LS
Thank you for the Bo DIddley /Bonnie Raitt duo which I'd never heard! Thinking about the Michael Beschloss question, i wonder if you've ever seen the short-lived series Dark Skies. The seriously bizarre GrossLuegenKrankheit Syndrome is veering into territory so incomprehensible that explanations like those in that X-Files-wannabe seem almost imaginable. Tobe Hooper directed the pilot and the opening credits were a marvel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQPsmgJIwo (and brilliant supporting character actor JT Walsh had an ongoing role that warranted watching) even if the series itself didn't make the grade. "history as we know it is a lie" rings even more bizarrely today amidst our learning from a poll CNN reported last night that 15% of Americans believe in conspiracy theories that I will not name so not to attract trolls to your great substack blog.
I remember the billboards for "Dark Skies" but never watched it--as you say, reviews were not kind. Would be looked on more favorably today, no doubt....