{"id":2297,"date":"2010-02-19T00:01:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T07:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/02\/dementia-slowly-claiming-crawdaddy-daddy-paul-williams\/"},"modified":"2010-02-21T10:18:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T17:18:32","slug":"dementia-slowly-claiming-crawdaddy-daddy-paul-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/19\/dementia-slowly-claiming-crawdaddy-daddy-paul-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dementia Slowly Claiming Crawdaddy Daddy, Paul Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

from MediaBistro’s Fishbowl LA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

‘Father of Rock Criticism’ Paul Williams Stricken with Early Onset Dementia<\/h2>\n

By Matthew Fleischer on Feb 16, 2010 09:20 AM<\/p>\n

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An interesting story in the\u00a0San Diego CityBeat<\/a>\u00a0profiles legendary rock critic\u00a0Paul Williams<\/a><\/strong>, who, after a serious bike accident in 1995, suffers from dementia. His condition has degraded in recent years, to the point where he now needs round-the-clock care.<\/p>\n

Williams founded the legendary music magazine “Crawdaddy” in 1966, when he was only 17. CityBeat writer\u00a0Sarah Nardi<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0credits Crawdaddy as “the first publication to treat rock as a serious subject (paving the way for future mags like Rolling Stone), and Williams was the first to realize that the music was less a generational byproduct than a cultural catalyst.”<\/p>\n

More on Williams from Nardi:<\/p>\n

“He smoked his first joint with\u00a0Brian Wilson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0while listening to the masters of what would become SMILE; he counseled a struggling Springsteen on musical direction (just before The Boss finally broke through with Born To Run); he and pal\u00a0Timothy Leary<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0spent a night with John and Yoko during the Toronto Bed-In-For-Peace, and Williams later rejoined the couple to sing on “Give Peace a Chance.” He bitched out\u00a0Jim Morrison<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for leaving a book Williams lent him behind on a plane; he hitched a ride to Woodstock in a limo with The Grateful Dead; and all the while, Williams was writing–refracting the pure creative energy around him through a powerful critical lens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Image credit, via CityBeat: “A portrait of Paul Williams painted by\u00a0Drew Snyder<\/a><\/strong>, rendered from a photo taken by R.E.M.’s\u00a0Michael Stipe<\/a><\/strong>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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from MediaBistro’s Fishbowl LA ‘Father of Rock Criticism’ Paul Williams Stricken with Early Onset Dementia By Matthew Fleischer on Feb 16, 2010 09:20 AM   An interesting story in the\u00a0San Diego CityBeat\u00a0profiles legendary rock critic\u00a0Paul Williams, who, after a serious bike accident in 1995, suffers from dementia. His condition has degraded in recent years, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}