"Rock and roll is an art form that belongs to the people and possesses the most primitive energy, and it has the possibility of fusing poetry, politics, soul and revolutionary power."
——Patti Smith
, when I was in college, I have seen singing on this occasion.
Later, I found it by accident and realized why Ladygaga mentioned The Rolling Stones when she mentioned one of the rock bands that influenced her the most.
Almost since last week, I have fallen into a state of narrative panic, feeling cold to the highest point of all imagination. At that time, I couldn't read books, and I couldn't come up with ideas. Perhaps because of being too busy, thinking is like being isolated from the world, falling into a situation where there is no wisdom, no words, no spirit, completely dominated by sex and the desire to survive.
This situation exists for most people, and I understand that no one wants to talk frankly about their erections and dampness. But I was confused by these shocking thoughts. Almost every day, I look for pleasure in the reading of erotic texts, and get rid of the extreme emptiness of spirit and soul from video and audio.
After the climax, it was completely lonely.
But this decadent and corrupt lifestyle belongs to my free will to some extent. I can't deny this. I sometimes find it difficult to distinguish between the real self and the virtual self. Sometimes I don’t believe that my free will is subordinate to endless lust and desire, and sometimes I feel that pursuing profoundness and will is a kind of Self-defeating and incapable of fighting.
If there is such a trial in the real world to judge the trueness and hypocrisy of the spirit, and then convict, I hope that through this threat and framing, I can face myself more truthfully, so that I will not be sentenced to hanging.
But the world is the world, and it is never purely rational.
The proposition of "freedom" cannot be accommodated in the real society. It is also the dominant proposition that rock insists on. In Britain in the 1960s, with the help of the world's hope and return for tranquility and peace after the war, old-school rock violently grafted on a historical time called "love and peace".
But what young people like us are obsessed with is not just a kind of indifferent folk songs that return to the dust, but more fierce crimes and passions, so a terrible inversion is constructed between the decadent existence and the ultimate spiritual pursuit. .
After love and peace, there is no need for positive thoughts anymore. There are only decadent and depressed sex, drugs, death, and rock and roll.
Under the impact of the new ideology, the spiritual value system of the entire world has formed two typical barriers, the barbaric value alternation and change and the shameful and lingering traditional cultural value reshaping, resulting in the opposition of the world political structure.
Western music, represented by Woodstock, of love and peace, and the bad taste of individualism represented by the Rolling Stones, have formed an irresistible counterbalance.
From the beginning of the Rolling Stones, the 70s gradually entered the gorgeous androgynous era, with more and more youth subcultural characteristics of constant denial, subversion, and overthrow.
nothingness.
Rock and roll is not a symbol of spirituality, not to mention beautiful love and peace, let alone freedom or rebellion, but just music.
So you won’t find a ridiculous way of life with the slogan "Rock First" in the dictionary of the Rolling Stones.
Rock music is just a medium that transitions from the metaphysics of the outer world to the inner. Why did the Rolling Stones of
Freedom
choose to hold a free concert of 300,000 people in Woodstock after four months?
In the 1960s, with the theme of love and peace, the lie was shaken and shattered, and the world fell into weirdness and chaos. And almost all people are immersed in the state of long-term vacation, and human nature is heading in the same direction. After the repeated advocacy movements of liberation, strikes, and individualism, a whole new social structure was born.
At the beginning of the film "Give Me Refuge", there was a recording of the news media from the film screening of the film, including an interview with a Hell Angel Party member: "I am not a peace-loving fool at all, you can call them Peace-loving hippies or something, some of them have taken drugs, which is simply too bad."
Although this came from the mouth of the representatives of the terrifying regional angel party, it revealed an overt social truth-evil. The social enthusiasm of the 1960s was something that everyone could not control and avoid. Drugs are rampant, eroding musicians and everyone. In the movie, watching the crowd of people who have become out of control and crazy due to drug use, but they all enjoy it.
If the people of the 1960s were still a lost generation, they were searching for a direction leading to an ideal world. Then, I might say that everyone has not yet reached a level to know and understand what they are exploring, and whether there will eventually be a happy state of life in the future? When it comes to the value system that the Rolling Stones are carrying, what they overthrow is a kind of truth: the future does not exist, and the prospects are completely missing. Therefore, this highest worship of Satan has shaken the foundation on which the age depends on advancement and survival. The shake of this era also affected the thoughts and lives of the five members of the Rolling Stones.
Charlie Watts mentioned to the camera that before the concert, the Hell Angels looked so friendly that no one could think of them as a symbol of violence and anger. This seeming wish for peace and friendliness falls apart at any time during a phone call and an incident.
The most real situation in this society is the eternal evil.
Then Rolling Stone participated in this free show, eager to give everyone a night full of "sex, freedom, and indulgence". The building composed of these philanthropic propositions also fell apart in this chaos.
In an interview with the media, Rolling Stone revealed the purpose of participating in this concert. They are eager to build a miniature society, set an example for the rest of Americans, and call on them how to release their influence and expand to the general public. The appeal.
However, the sad thing is that this kind of thought based on love and peace is largely determined by the crowd itself, and the Rolling Stones have no control over it. The vision of "freedom" was stranded in the chaos of the masses, and the reactionary force formed by the disobedience and lack of direction of the masses revolted back to the Rolling Stone itself.
From the fragmented details of the conversation, you can see that Mick Jagger is constantly raising the wine review in his hand behind the laugh. What penetrates from the surface of the smiling face seems to be an ominous prediction, or belief in himself. Uncertainty. Facing the current exhaustion and disgust, finally the deep contempt and rejection of the soul.
As sung in the lyrics, childhood life is gone forever, and what is left is all injuries and pains, but I can't let go and try my best to maintain everything in the moment. The Rolling Stones choose to rely on their belief in the future. They use music and live performances to find a way to heal the disease of the times. They raised the banner of freedom, but true freedom is built on the disgust of the present and the chaos of the masses. Amidst disorder and disorder, so much that the desire for freedom has become the remnants of body and spirit excreted together.
The
participation of the mob in the concert is a kind of self-intoxication of the crowd for their own chaos and loss, and in this form of intoxication, it has placed the largest proportion of self. Here they can revel, get out of order, and want to be frantic, without discrimination and restrictions, and without following the rules in the real world. This is the state of the most ideal country.
Rolling Stone said on the eve of the concert that their purest desire for this concert is that they hope everyone will spend a happy night. The concert is like a stage for drama, which just provides a medium for everyone to gather. . Everyone can talk to each other, sleep together, make love to each other, and enjoy a night of ecstasy.
This is the night of forgetting and forgotten that people expect. Because of worry, stress, or loneliness, they want to forget something and use drugs and sex to numb themselves. So, for the Rolling Stones concert, they are full of dreamlike expectations, just like people's expectations for love and peace in the Woodstock Music Festival, this free concert is about to bring people a night , Is also worth remembering in everyone's life, and the extraordinary dream that can coexist with other experiences and stories in the timeline of life.
It's like looking forward to the oracle's coming, even if it's just overnight.
But the real situation is that this oracle is also pinned on a group emotional vent. The instantaneous end heralds the coming of objective dementia. Returning to life, the ironic moments will not go away.
In some forms, rock music and drugs are the same.
The occurrence of the Otamont incident is an important whistle for such a mob.
From a scene from the previous tour replayed in the movie, it can be seen that the crowd is getting crazy. There seems to be no boundary and field division. A group of fans pushed and shouted from the stage, and a few even climbed onto the stage. The evil truth was concealed under the ironic smile. This small detail heralds the coming of an age of livestock.
People place themselves on other things, invade each other, and aggravate each other's existence. This is not the most perfect way of idolatry but the enslavement of idols. And this kind of nonsensical, completely entrusted worship, based on individualistic, self-privatized desire for possession, will surely trigger a riot at its peak.
The new process that the cultural circle has entered is that culturally innovative people such as the Rolling Stone no longer have the significance of rock changing the world in the era of "love and peace". On the contrary, the existence of the Rock Icon can’t give. No change in the world.
Therefore, the fan in the audience will turn the gun toward the stage, regardless of how many people are there, and regardless of the fact that the rolling stone on the stage is his cultural idol. This is not the worship of love and peace, but the use of keen thoughts as numb emotions.
When I watched crazy girls begging to see a side of the Rolling Stones outside the habitat of the Rolling Stones;
when those ignorant crowds climbed up on the steel frame of hypothetical lights to be indifferent under persuasion;
when a group of people were free on the grass after taking drugs. Rolling, laughing and cursing;
the local angel party riding a Harley motorcycle brings a gloomy atmosphere and the crowd responds to them with hostile eyes;
this era has changed. The instantaneous loss of
social hereditary pain and
order is a trap left over from history, causing the murder of light and re-allowing darkness to descend.
In this society where order has been lost, the regime has been unable to fulfill its mission, and the boundaries between enjoyment and suffering have become unclear.
Almost all of the 300,000 people regard darkness as light. And in this period of confusion between black and white, no one can see the light of truth. The heroic value represented by the Rolling Stone collapsed. During the transition of the ages, the old ideas and cultures began to fragment in the process of innovation, and replaced by a new rock style.
So you saw David Bowie in the 70s, you saw the Velvet Underground, you saw Pink Floyd, you saw the Plastic Man of the Universe...
I’m not here to discuss the growth of a rock music god History, but to explore in the process of the alternation of the 1960s and 1970s, the hereditary characteristics of the old cultural system were imported into the new era through the occurrence of historical events.
On the other hand, look at the hot exploded and hippie fan in "Give Me Asylum", fighting with the Hell Angel Party in the crowd. Someone in the crowd shouted, "Someone shot at the stage", and the whole process For three or four performances that were stopped due to fighting, the Rolling Stones have been insisting, "Calm down, we will continue."
This may be an unintentional script setting of the film, but it has cleverly formed a spiritual rule, and the Rolling Stone still tries Through music, to save all the chaotic state of the scene.
But this cannot change anything.
Cultural divisions have allowed everyone to become a creature, and thus an extremely tiny individual. Thousands of well-educated people yelled and furiously at the scene, whether it was the Hell Angel Party or the fans.
Mick Jagger said this at the scene: Originally everyone could spend a good night this winter. We sincerely hope that why not stop fighting? Let us unite, I can only ask everyone, ask everyone to unite. What everyone can do, this is what everyone can do. Everyone, including members of the Hell Angel Party, please get along with each other in harmony.
But the audience in the audience was still pushing and hustling during this speech, pushing the tragedy to its peak. No one is listening carefully to the judgment that rock changes the world and makes everyone love peace. This is just like what the Hell Angel Party guy said on the phone at the beginning of the movie, "Actually, no one believes in peace and love."
This truth cannot even be accepted by me.
Peace and love have become a kind of social balance, just like Libra, in the contradictions between evil and goodwill, order and chaos, there is an invisible balance.
But I have always insisted on being good. There is nothing in human nature that can induce people to make unreasonable and excessive behaviors. Therefore, the role played by that fan's death in this concert is nothing else but heralding that the holy myth of rock representing love and peace will fall to the altar.
Finally, I recommend this song "Sympathy For The Devil" to everyone. Although Mick Jagger said that every time I demonstrate this song style, various problems will occur, but this is indeed one of the best songs of the Rolling Stones.
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