Quote: Frank Zappa on rock journalism (antedating); Also a question about the Rolling Stone magazine archive

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 04:20:58PM -0400, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>
> Cite: 1978 January 3, Times-Picayune, Rolling Stone: Random Notes:
> Alice Dries Out by Michael Duffey, Section 5, Page 2, (GB Page 46),
> New Orleans, Louisiana. (GenealogyBank)
>
> Frank Zappa on the merits of writing about rock 'n' roll:
> Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who
> can't talk for people who can't read." Thank you. Frank. We'll be in
> touch.
>
> If you have access to the archive do you think that it is useful? Is
> the optical character recognition reliable enough for effective
> searching? Are the images readable?

I can check this in the office tomorrow. In general, with the Rolling
Stone DVDs, the images are totally readable, and the OCR is pretty good
too. However the navigation is very slow indeed, and you often have to
jockey DVDs around. I rarely use it unless I'm confirming something I
already know is there, or if I'm looking for something I think I've got
a really good chance of finding in it.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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