Indeed, he was for real

I'd read about the infamous Columbia Records "The Man can't bust our music" ad,  which appeared in underground newspapers in 1968, but never seen it until Ann Powers tweeted a copy. Like "Mahler Is Heavy," it's a problematic attempt to market classical music with counterculture rhetoric. In the lower-right-hand corner you see the CBS recording of Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I and Mikrophonie II. The copy reads: "The microphone as an instrument with shrieks and cackling. Is he for real?" It may be argued, though, that the Man never entirely succeeded in busting Stockhausen.

See also: Mittwoch.