{"id":12646,"date":"2019-11-19T06:55:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12646"},"modified":"2019-11-19T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:55:56","slug":"episode-350-ed-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-350-ed-ward","title":{"rendered":"Episode 350 – Ed Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 350: Ed Ward<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I don\u2019t like nostalgia. I consider it destructive to a rational understanding of history.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>From the Sex Pistols’ last show to the backseat of Elvis’ gold Cadillac, Ed Ward<\/a> has had a front-row seat to the history of rock & roll. He returns to the show to talk about The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964\u20131977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock<\/a>\"\" (Flatiron Books), and we get into the challenges of chronicling the form in that that era (both narratively and chronologically), his novelistic approach to history, the destructive nature of nostalgia, and how glad he was to get corroboration on the circumstances of Jim Morrison\u2019s death. Along the way, we get into his oft-quoted but misunderstood review of the first Stooges record (and how Iggy validated him), how Woodstock predicted the collapse of the music industry, why he thought (incorrectly) that the \u201870s were a nostalgia-proof generation, why he doesn\u2019t listen to music anymore, and his answer to the key question of the era: Beatles or Stones? Give it a listen<\/a> (and check out our 2016 podcast<\/a>)! And go buy The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964\u20131977<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“I was there and I know how the story of rock & roll ends.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n