Ian S. Port

Author, THE BIRTH OF LOUD: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll | [email protected]

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Uh so the great @StevieVanZandt just said he read AND liked The #BirthofLoud

~BRB~

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦🕉Stevie Van Zandt☮️💙 @StevieVanZandt]

Read it. Good.

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

The Jann Wenner thing is to me one more reminder that the entire mythology of Sixties music needs to be reconsidered and rewritten. We’re seeing just how bad and limited a worldview the existing canon came from.

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Solid lil tremble here in Berkeley! #earthquake

[Daniel Levin Becker @dlb]

Really tickled by this essay in which @adamgopnik takes a piece of WHAT'S GOOD and dilates it into a proper disquisition on the nature and baggage of rhyme.

[City Lights Books @CityLightsBooks]

For those who attend our WHAT'S GOOD celebration this Saturday with author @dlb & guest @iPORT, an exclusive treat when you order the book directly from us:

A 'Side B' mix of songs explored in the book.

Here's a little taste, created by the author: https://t.co/6CnEx55ghc

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

This Sat 2/12 I'm talking virtually with @dlb about his [timely slang for high quality] new book, WHAT'S GOOD: Notes on Rap and Language (via @CityLightsBooks). Come hang! https://t.co/GvmmgTlPW0

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

I wish more people talked about the brilliance of The White Album as an essay title — invoking the Beatles’ dissolution and loss of plot to indicate the same for Didion personally and for the world at large

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

A good appreciation of Didion, who seems like the last of a now-extinct species — the midcentury megawriter. Her sentences changed me, maybe every writer, also the entire culture.

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

The best thing Pitchfork has ever published https://t.co/LhqwRJlbfK

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

The SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly, dead 7 years apart. Thanks to @EskSF for the no-bullshit eulogies. "Nothing beside remains," etc.

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

The CA recall cost $300 million! Don’t people know you can almost buy a house in the Bay Area for that?

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

(Then again, doesn’t every working musician wish they could just play jazz for a living?)

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Amazing how even Charlie Watts — the lynchpin drummer of the greatest rock band in the world — kinda wanted to be something else https://t.co/UDd1dcrVsr

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

When I was a shitbag college music journo, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof told me Charlie Watts was a huge inspiration. I was surprised to hear such classic rock reverence. But Watts' style was truly timeless: agile, subtle, beautifully behind the beat.

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Charlie Watts: Proof that knowing what not to play (and when not to play it) is greatness.

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Ugh RIP to the great Gift of Gab, whose rhymes (and humor!) here still gobsmack me every time. A Bay legend. https://t.co/8BG6B8KYMB

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Having heavy Bay Area feelings as Larry Graham explains on @LowCutConnie’s Tough Cookies how he got his first bass at Music Unlimited in San Leandro - my home guitar shop for years

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Too bad the Foo Fighters are leading the race for Last Rock Band Everyone Has Heard Of

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

@jweverka Yes! Hip them to this instant legend!

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

I'm here for Amanda Gorman forever

[Ian S. Port @iPORT]

Here, this, now

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

Prince as birds.

A thread.