They Did It Again 3

Claude Buck (1890–1974), “War Protest”

hold me up baby for i may fall: rowland s. howard 1983

”…the crowd are almost past caring but manage a desultory cheer as a thin figure finally appears onstage. He clutches a glass, and looks unhappy to be here. All the boxes are ticked: the scowl, the mad nest of black hair, skinny jeans, pointy Cuban-heel boots, and a bad, bad attitude. Another pale apparition, skinny arms emerging from a check shirt with the sleeves hacked off, is holding a white Fender Jaguar and has a perma-cigarette clamped between his lips. The cigarette will miraculously stay alight almost throughout the performance. In contrast, across the stage, the bass player looks mean as. Like he doesn’t take any shit from anyone. He is wearing his trademark Stetson, a white shirt and leather pants, and is probably the only man in the room with a moustache…“