the frig blig

[If my keyboard had a key to type the equivalence rather than equals sign, sigh…]

Much has been written by musicians over the past several weeks about the influence Alex Chilton had on their various careers etc.

I myself was never a fan, since I didn’t particularly care for ‘The Letter’ (AC’s big hit). I may have even seen AC once in the 1980s in Tallahassee. If I did, I wasn’t impressed.

But all the recent attention motivated me to download the third Big Star album ‘Third/Sister Lovers’, which I have been listening to on the Metro 16 on my way to work.

And now I hear what I missed. This morning during ‘Nature Boy’ I felt a similarity between AC and Syd Barrett. In the way they approach songwriting; their actual music, voices and styles are not overtly similar.

Who knew? Apparently lots of people, I’m just late to the club.

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