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The Slider, T Rex (Reprise)Marc my love, my main man - bring into us ail the spirit of it all, Marc my love, my main slider — wearin’ automatic shoes - swine to me, bring to me, a sound, a sense — send me that rock V roll telegram - Sam; for when you don’t, it doesn’t -Marc my love, dance with me on the moons of mars — dance the night fantastic Phebes is ours underneath the all lasting settin* Mambo Sun whilst I partake of my Herlacher beer we shall see -Elemental child, Marc, a man whose timeless sense of ancient wavwordg - poet - co-exists with an impish sense of joy - ’rockin’ in the nude/Feelin such a dude — music rock *n’ roll always bringing down the rhymes and the rhythms to their essentialsAnd when we’re sad we slide - The Slider vs. The Electric Warrior - Bang a Gong * Round One: “Mild mouthed Rita *She’s a Chewy Chase cheetah Loves everyone everyone”What can one say when one is tryinv to evaluate the likes of “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mais” vs. “The Man Who Sold the World” or Electric Warrior/The Slider? Obviously the two are masterful representation of their artistic concentors, obviously both are rock ’n’ roll accessible, obviously their obviously pelvic thrusters - I mean you can dance to ’em — but subobjectively they both can’t exist on the same level of pleasure - simply because level pleasure principles won’t allow this — level pleasure principles being the functional apparatus which we all employ when dealing with a quasi-stagnating socio-ecoculture ButKindly thinking in terms of environment one has to consider just where one wants his pleasures gratified. Me I’m a culture junkie so it’s not easy at the moment it’s a neck and fingernail battle between David Bowie and Marc Rolan so in this structure, I’ll Clarence Harrow the monkey and scope the situation.Electric Warrior is a classic, and it certainly ranks high in the field of rock *n* roll, probably only outdone in the long run by Layla and Trout Mask Replica. So as a classic it stands as a classic, and we all know that there are no masterpieces, so what we have is a quasi-classic that sure lets you stomp your stackeds - Marc’s beautiful lyrics somtimes combine idealy with his simple musicality raunch meets Keats, etc,“Slim lined sheik faced Angel of the night Riding like a cowboy In the graveyard of the night New York witch in the dungeon Of the daySo it seems that The Slider isn’t even aquasi-classic, it’s a neutron star, condensed so far into itself that only on brief occasions does it let loose its pulse Electric Warrior, well, it ain’t even reached Nova yet - The Slider vs, 77ie Electric Warrior end round one - bang a gong is he really right round twoThe judges’ decisionsM H 9 8 Electric Warn or Line Judge9 9 9 9 9 9 TTie Slider Line Judge8 8 8 9 6 7 Electric Warrior Field Judge8 8 8 7 7 6 7%* Slider Field Judgestill pending the judgment of the referee in the middle of the ring Marc BoLan, the referee and Marc Bolan who will win the ladv or fbe tjper —:Joe FcrnacherI’m trying to write my novelBut ail you do is play”Marc’s fineness of lyrical imagery excels in Electric Warrior but approaches sheer art in The Slider — he’s an electrostatic romantic with neutronic sensibilities and a chief example of man making love to the machine and retaining his manliness and machineness. Marc Bolan is an electric punk with beauty instead of grease — his grease lies within his soul which never ever leaves the days of Peggy Sue and Rumble.However, while The Slider maintains exquisite word beauty, it never really realizes itself in terms of its raunch. That delicate balance seems to be ebbing ever so gently — unlike the relentless raunch of Mamb* Sun, Ride a White Swan coagulates with “Main Man/’ and “Telegram Sam” succeeds at times in melting Rip Off while Jecpster excels the entire field as an ultimate hymnal to everything.
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Buffalo Spectrum
Buffalo, New York, US
Fri, Sep 22, 1972
Page 5
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Clifford M.
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