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Re: (TV) Marquee Moon mainstream?



it is getting regular play on cnn's "anderson cooper
360."  but i don't think it will be really mainstream
'til it gets on nancy grace.

r



--- Russ Van Rooy <russvr@pop.nwnexus.com> wrote:
> Okay so I was having dinner at a local chain here in
> Portland called McMenamins' - good pub fair - and I
> could hardly believe my ears when I instantly
> recognized the stacatto strums from the beginning of
> 'Marquee Moon' , gentley, but persistantly coming
> from the restaurants' sound system. McMenamins,
> started by two brothers known for their love of the
> Grateful Dead, truly an Oregonian kind of place,
> while certainly not a bastion of red-neckness, is
> not exactly what I'd call a hipster joint ( like the
> Cup and Saucer Cafe, a place more likely to be
> frequented by local musician types, a haunt of
> Elliott Smith rip). So, has it come to this? Will
> the mainstream finally recognize the enduring
> greatness of 'Marquee Moon'; will it indeed become
> the successor to 'Stairway to Heaven' or
> even...'Freebird'?


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