How can you go wrong with all those great songs? Well, by sugar coating everything. If you’d ever seen or heard the Shirelles or Drifters or Clovers or Little Eva singing “Locomotion.” you would be struck by the dumbing down/gussying up of all this music. Big lack of authenticity. I left after the intermission. I even thought some of the singers were lip-syncing. Just phony. Worse than what Motown did with the Supremes. Heavy handed and yes, it’s had great reviews. Go figure.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
Watched Allison Anders's wonderful, semi-fictional Carole King/Aldon Music movie Grace Of My Heart last week, twice in fact. It contains more warmth and authentic history about Aldon's incredible run of pop music than any other source I know, other than simply cranking up the stereo and listening to the source material.