God bless Marty Balin; he died yesterday. God bless the Airplane, & the Starship. I got news: the revolution DID happen; we the survivors are the proof. The Woodstock nation was always a one at a time thing; a nation in a nation without leaders, always anarchic. This leads me to the line "Can't help but see the rhinoceros around us" which refers to Eugene Ionesco's play wherein the actors turn one by one into rhinos. In 1974 it was made into the the movie "Rhinoceros". Yeah, I know it's supposed to be about everyone becoming Nazis, but check out the cartoon on the back cover of the album Volunteers (and on the back cover, and the back cover of the booklet too, in the cd package). A prismatic ant gets bonked by a head, and is thereby turned into a head. It has the captions; "don't they outnumber us?", "thank you", and "you're welcome friend". Sorta like rhinoceros in reverse. One person at a time turned into new citizens of the Woodstock nation. By means of clear light doses of LSD the way I see it. I digress; Mary Balin and Paul Kantner were probably just singing about Ionesco's type of rhinoceroses (rhinoceri?). This song, "The House at Pooneil Corners", is actually a very sad song about nuclear war, and one we all desperately hope will never come true!
God bless Marty Balin; he died yesterday. God bless the Airplane, & the Starship. I got news: the revolution DID happen; we the survivors are the proof. The Woodstock nation was always a one at a time thing; a nation in a nation without leaders, always anarchic. This leads me to the line "Can't help but see the rhinoceros around us" which refers to Eugene Ionesco's play wherein the actors turn one by one into rhinos. In 1974 it was made into the the movie "Rhinoceros". Yeah, I know it's supposed to be about everyone becoming Nazis, but check out the cartoon on the back cover of the album Volunteers (and on the back cover, and the back cover of the booklet too, in the cd package). A prismatic ant gets bonked by a head, and is thereby turned into a head. It has the captions; "don't they outnumber us?", "thank you", and "you're welcome friend". Sorta like rhinoceros in reverse. One person at a time turned into new citizens of the Woodstock nation. By means of clear light doses of LSD the way I see it. I digress; Mary Balin and Paul Kantner were probably just singing about Ionesco's type of rhinoceroses (rhinoceri?). This song, "The House at Pooneil Corners", is actually a very sad song about nuclear war, and one we all desperately hope will never come true!