The real nature and significance of the [nude scene in Hair] seems to have gone unobserved by everyone.

Before we get into that, I want to define my position on the "moral" issue of Hair: I don't think there is one…. Perhaps the people who made and appear in Hair would like to think the "adult" world is uptight about the issue, but I don't think it is. Hair attacks only straw men, and by no stretch of the imagination is it daring….

I think Hair has no real social or philosophic point to make that hasn't been made earlier and better; it's fighting a war that has long since been won. But is it musically interesting?

Not to me it isn't, and not to most people I know who know music….

Hair has no story, it makes no point, and it has almost no music. When it...