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The Show

The show: Books Titles and Authors – where books come alive & authors make sense

Host: Jim (Matthew Neel)

Critic: Ryan (Hunington West)

Biographer: (Richard Magnussen)

Mick Fahren: Jesse (Mick Fahren)

Show starts with Matthew Neel’s intro, and quick overview of today’s topic,

Panel is introduced:

Hunington West renowned critic for the periodical Horse and Hound

Mick Fahren writer and past rocker with the Deviants

Richard Magnussen Biographer and Author of the book Does Mayo Really Grow Hair in the Sun?

Start with overview of life of Mick with biographer

• How did he get his start
• Where has he been since then?
• What looks to be his next step?
• What influenced him on the way? (people, drugs?)

List bands that he has been in

• Go over song titles, and indications that those give
• Tendencies, and the actual sound

Note the time that he was in the bands, and the fact that he was during the rebellious – sex revolution.

Move now to talk to Mick Farren

Let mick read poem that he has brought along (hippie death cult)

Ask Q’s

• Motivation for “The Motorcycle Jacket”
• Much of your article suggests Rebellion. In fact the subject it’s self has been a symbol of rebellion since your time.
• You compare it to and, I quote, “a throwback to atavistic prehistory, when to wear the hide of a dead animal was to assume that creature’s unique spiritual power. The studded leather armor of Roman gladiators, berserker Vikings, and Attila’s Huns are echoed in the implied threat of the biker chic”   You continue on to compare the motor cycle jacket to the garbs of a medieval executioner, a Caribbean pirate, and the western gun fighter. You say then that the lining is comparable to count Dracula’s red cape.
• It seems that your music tends to make refrences to the Rebellious side of pop culture.
• And last of all, why the jacket?

Close the show by asking critic how he feels about the article

• What points would he like to make
• What are the strengths and weakness’

Thank author, critic, and biographer, and tell audience to tune in next week when we’ll be speaking with Margaret Thatcher about her love affair, and recent book, When Women lie