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The Armageddon Rag

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The Armageddon Rag	comment	Back in the 60s, the fictional rock band NazgÃ»l was at the top of their game, and a rallying cry for the burgeoning hippie movement. However this all ended September 20, 1971, when their lead singer, Patrick Henry Hobbins, was murdered on stage in New Mexico. The band broke up and the world moved on.At least, until the band's old manager, Jamie Lynch, is found dead. Alternative movement 'zine The Hedgehog calls its old editor Sandy Blair to write a feature piece about the murder, seeing as how he covered the band in the Hog's past. Along the way to interviewing the surviving members of the band and hopefully solve the murder, Blair reconnects with his own troupe of flower-power hippie revolutionaries he used to pal around with in the 60s.His leads go nowhere and the story evaporates, but a mysterious man named Edan Morse offers - or should we say plots - to reunite the band with a new lead singer. Sandy is called in to be NazgÃ»l's PR man for the upcoming tour. Despite his misgivings, he accepts. However what seems like a typical reunion tour turns to the surreal and macabre as Sandy uncovers the sinister motivations behind the reunion.The book was published in 1983 by George R. R. Martin well over a decade before A Song of Ice and Fire was a twinkle in his eye. As a meditation on 60s rock music and the flower-power movement, it's most famous for being a colossal commercial failure, so much so that it almost killed Martin's career and causing him to retreat into film and TV Writing for a few years. Despite this, the novel remains in print.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: One of the defining examples in the fictional universe of the book. The guitarist, Maggio, is a legendary junkie and pedophile.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Armageddon Rag / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Many times. The Armageddon Rag is the name of the band's extended jam from side B of their most famous album, so it gets talked about a fair bit. Technically it's The Armageddon/Resurrection Rag, but it's usually just referred to as Armageddon Rag.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_19df659c	type	Gone Horribly Wrong
The Armageddon Rag / int_19df659c	comment	Gone Horribly Wrong: Edan Morse's plot is to incite a riot that causes mass anarchy, in order to rebuild a better world. He realizes it won't progress past all the death and destruction and tries to call it off but unfortunately, Ananda sees it more as a case of Utopia Justifies the Means.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Armageddon Rag / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Edan Morse made some kind of ritual sacrifice. As the band keeps playing gigs, he keeps bleeding more and more profusely.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
The Armageddon Rag / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: Edan Morse, the NazgÃ»l's new benefactor, has scars all over his left hand from cutting himself. Sandy finds out later it's part of a blood sacrifice. He gets much, much worse later on.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Armageddon Rag / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Once Sandy finds out what is going on behind the scenes, he's the only one who questions it and tries to stop it. in the band, Peter Faxon, the bass player and principal songwriter. The drummer is an alcoholic who wants nothing to do with the NazgÃ»l anymore, the guitarist is a junkie, pedophile psychotic, and the singer is, well, dead. Since all the publishing rights go to him, he has the least need to reunite. He just does it for the music.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_2bf54826	type	Longest Song Goes Last
The Armageddon Rag / int_2bf54826	comment	Longest Song Goes Last: Side B of NazgÃ»l's last album is entirely taken up by the 23 minute Armageddon/Resurrection Rag.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_31bd1ba1	type	Twin Threesome Fantasy
The Armageddon Rag / int_31bd1ba1	comment	Twin Threesome Fantasy:Rick Maggio gets to live this fantasy. Then it turns out the twins were underage, and he finds himself being blackmailed with photos of the event.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Armageddon Rag / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Slit the dog's throat to be exact.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_39f27cae	type	Bedmate Reveal
The Armageddon Rag / int_39f27cae	comment	Bedmate Reveal: Sandy wakes up not remembering anything from the night before. Then he sees Ananda. It's revealed they actually did NOT have sex that night, but do many, many times after.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
The Armageddon Rag / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: The main character, Sandy Blair, is a novelist who got his start editing a 60s revolutionary 'zine.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_4df647d9	type	Billed Above the Title
The Armageddon Rag / int_4df647d9	comment	Billed Above the Title: Now that George is a #1 times bestseller for A Song of Ice and Fire, his name is much larger than the title on reprints.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Armageddon Rag / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: What happens to Edan Morse as the black magic takes its course.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Armageddon Rag / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Gort, to Edan Morse. He's a hulk of a man and obeys orders without question.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_5fe1360d	type	Audience Participation Song
The Armageddon Rag / int_5fe1360d	comment	Audience Participation Song: The song Ragin', which the guitarist Maggio sings lead on.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_60b21fa3	type	The Lancer
The Armageddon Rag / int_60b21fa3	comment	The Lancer: Ananda Caine, who is Edan Morse's right-hand woman, and is fiercely competent. in the end, she kills Edan and becomes the main antagonist.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Armageddon Rag / int_617f0563	comment	Heelâ€“Face Turn: Edan Morse realizes what they are doing is wrong, but far, far too late to stop it.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Armageddon Rag / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: George R. R. Martin must really love 60s rock music.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Armageddon Rag / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The one who kicked off the plot by killing Lynch in the first place was Ananda.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_74149c93	type	Epic Rocking
The Armageddon Rag / int_74149c93	comment	Epic Rocking: NazgÃ»l is famous for their extended jams, Grateful Dead style.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_7f1be21	type	Functional Addict
The Armageddon Rag / int_7f1be21	comment	Functional Addict: Maggio the guitarist. He loves being a junkie and continues taking speed pills throughout their reunion tour, before and after going onstage. It doesn't seem to impair his performance, but he is very unpleasant in person. Lynch, the old promoter, once gave him drugs as a Christmas present. He was thrilled.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Armageddon Rag / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Sandy Drives a Mazda RX-7, which he names Daydream. He uses it on more than one occasion to get laid. It works.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_8b04eac7	type	Body Snatcher
The Armageddon Rag / int_8b04eac7	comment	Body Snatcher: Through black magic, the dead Hobbins literally possesses Larry during the concerts, but only when they play the old songs.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_8c78872	type	Writer's Block
The Armageddon Rag / int_8c78872	comment	Writer's Block: Sandy takes the assignment because he's stuck on page 37 of his novel. He never finishes it and ends up throwing the pages out a taxi window.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Armageddon Rag / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Nobody is particularly choked up that Jamie Lynch is dead. The band members acknowledge he's the reason they found such success in the past, but he locked them into one of the all-time shittiest lifetime contracts possible.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_9e09fbd7	type	New-Age Retro Hippie
The Armageddon Rag / int_9e09fbd7	comment	New-Age Retro Hippie: Sandy and his comrades from the 60s were all this. Some still are, some fell out of it. Part of the reason Sandy took the assignment in the first place was to reconnect with them.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_a90f8f85	type	Clone by Conversion
The Armageddon Rag / int_a90f8f85	comment	Clone by Conversion: A new singer is found for the band, a kid who looks almost exactly like the late Patrick Hobbins. The kid, Larry Richmond, undergoes facial surgery to look even more like Hobbins.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Armageddon Rag / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: This is basically Sandy Blair's entire character. He's immensely proud of it.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Armageddon Rag / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Sandy keeps having prophetic dreams, and a recurring one features a woman being sacrificed on-stage. He later realized it's about a groupie who hangs around Maggio, based on her scream in real life matching the one heard in his dream.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Armageddon Rag / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Sandy's buddy Slum, whose father is a stereotypical American macho-man who writes trashy, but successful, thriller novels. He has Slum declared mentally invalid and cuts him off from the world, and rules all his kids through fear and intimidation.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Armageddon Rag / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: When Sandy returns home from investigating Lynch's murder to find his girlfriend in bed with another man, he's furious. This despite the fact he hooked up with two women on the road since they both agreed to an open relationship.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Armageddon Rag / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Lots and lots to 60s rock music in general, and the flower-power movement as a whole. Each chapter beings with a quote from a famous song, which roughly mirrors the chapter's plot, and other lyrics are sprinkled throughout the text.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_d4e9de59	type	Dreadful Musician
The Armageddon Rag / int_d4e9de59	comment	Dreadful Musician: The reunited NazgÃ»l. Sandy can tell at the first rehearsal they don't have the magic anymore. The biggest offender is Larry Richmond who, despite being a near identical clone, just isn't the same as their old singer.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: The reunion tour of NazgÃ»l is eerily similar to their 1971 tour that ended with the death of their singer. This is all on purpose as part of a black magic ritual.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
The Armageddon Rag / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: The three surviving members of the Nazgul; the sleazy drug-addicted paedophile Rick Maggio is the Id, the intellectual, morally-attuned and slightly pompous Peter Faxon is the Superego, and Gopher John is the Ego.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_ef4d8558	type	A World Half Full
The Armageddon Rag / int_ef4d8558	comment	A World Half Full: Half of the novel is Sandy having philosophical conversations with his friends and acquaintances about the way the world is, versus how they envisioned it in their idyllic youths.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_f5fe65a3	type	Heavy Mithril
The Armageddon Rag / int_f5fe65a3	comment	Heavy Mithril: What the band plays. Kind of obvious considering they are called NazgÃ»l.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_f727b9c5	comment	The Body Parts That Must Not Be Named: Very much averted when it comes to females. Vagina is written multiple times, and nearly every woman's breasts are described, sometimes multiple times. Male genitals are only referred to by euphemisms though.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: The surviving members of NazgÃ»l. Gopher John the drummer is running a hole-in-the-wall club, Maggio the guitarist is playing gigs with a bunch of scrubs to get in a girl's pants. Faxon the bass player is also the primary songwriter so he's doing fine with royalty checks coming in, but secretly yearns to be back on top. All three are eventually convinced to reunite, one way or another.
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The Armageddon Rag / int_fec2b522	comment	Happy Ending: The dark magic crisis is averted, Sandy has written a hit novel based on his experiences, and the NazgÃ»l are back with a better singer and about to cut a new album.
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