Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by clarkjohnsen (R) on December 01, 2005 at 10:02:34

When I was a boy and Abbey Road was still on the New Release racks
at my local record store, one familiar pop culture question my
friends and I would often entertain concerned the potential
existence and probable identity of a "fifth Beatle"—a
session-seasoned ghost-star brought in to buoy up Paul's bass
lines, or some funk-for-hire kagemusha, secretly shadow-doubling
keyboard rumbles deep within the mix. Today—grayer, far less
groovy, and no longer so susceptible to such frivolous and
rhetorical pop-cult idylls as those of yore—I tend toward weightier
and more serious concerns. The possibility, for example, that
alongside the seven blade runners of Akira Kurosawa's sword-toting
supergroup there might have strode an extra warrior—an "eighth
samurai."

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