@mikko : Vielen, vielen Dank. Nein, Lothar & The Hand People kenne ich noch nicht, ich meine aber den Namen schon ein paar Mal irgendwo gelesen zu haben. Ist jedenfalls notiert.
Ich vergaß noch zu erwähnen, dass 1969 nicht alles schief lief. Es fing sogar sehr gut an:
„I think it was early Spring in 1969 when New York’s Mayor John Lindsay declared a free day in the park for all New Yorkers to watch the Apollo 11 astronauts land on the moon. He arranged for huge television screens to be mounted in Central Park so everyone could watch the moon landing and a bandstand to be constructed so there could be music leading up to the historic event. He declared Silver Apples to be „the New York sound“ and commissioned us to write a piece for the event and perform it plus all of our other songs (…) and [so] I was singing my heart out [there] and Armstrong was stepping onto the moon and human beings were entering a new era and thousands of people were crying with happiness and soaking wet and singing and hugging each other. Well, just when he thought the most political-mileage-moment was upon him Mayor Lindsay grabbed the microphone to say something profound and I swear I saw his ears light up. He was baptized into the world of electronic music. His hair looked like the bride of Frankenstein. Rolling Stone magazine did a piece on the event and called me the „leading exponent of hippy technology.“
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Gewöhnlich glaubt der Mensch - wenn er nur Worte hört - es müsse sich dabei doch auch was denken lassen.