STIERMUSIC - THE ECHO OF TOMORROW
First it was Elvis bouncing his
pelvis on a steel strung electric guitar. Then it was the Beatles, and
"Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" gave new meaning to the
phrase "long hair." All America freaked out with electronic sound,
flashing lights, and the bizarre rites of psychedelia.
Yet all these were but the first
few drops of the storm that was to blow down from the north. In less than a
month Stiermusic has become a national institution and, to teen-agers, almost a
religion.
Rock ‘n’ roll is dead. Long live
Stier!
How permanent is this revolution
in sound? The cynics of the older generation say it will be short-lived, that
it will pass into oblivion as did boogie-woogie, the twist, folk music, and
rock 'n' roll. They warn of its affect on youth, and some even classify
Stiermusic as a narcotic.
Indeed, there have been reports
on the West Coast of teen-agers "turning on" to drugs as mysterious
as the sound itself.
"It was really great at the beginning, that
wild new sound, the way you freak
out with each new record. And white clay. And the way he fucked up the war scare Washington was keeping us in …'' He took two gulps of gin and whistled,
fanning his face with both hands. "And the Snow Children. You'd think it
would be really great, being able to fuck any girl you meet. But that's not
really the way it is, you know, those girls make you. They make love to you, and even while they're doing it they're
rapping about energy patterns, or Black Atlantis, or the reversed polarity of
the fourth moon. You know? They're all like
that, for Christ's sake! If you hadn't spent the whole summer hiding out in
Sausalito, you'd know what's happening."
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