Their partnership as Fuzz emerged from jamming at home, taking their cue from heavy rock's early years and the acid-fuelled experimentation of Blue Cheer and Iron Butterfly; not that those influences are conscious so much as unavoidable.
With this in mind, a little sweetening of the deal starts looking not so much unethical as unavoidable.
Gee's writing is full of such encounters - not major racial flashpoints so much as the unavoidable collisions and misapprehensions that occur when people of different cultures rub shoulders in the street.
They were not truly rivals then — in morality or basketball — but the comparisons today are now unavoidable, and so much more relevant and compelling.
This is probably unavoidable, since so much of what we're seeing happens, in real life, in an eye blink, and is unlike anything we're familiar with.
On his most recent album, "Control" (Jade Tree), there's a song called "Priests and Paramedics," in which Mr. Bazan confesses, "Lately I've been wondering why we go to so much trouble to postpone the unavoidable and prolong the pain of being alive".
On his new album, "Control" (Jade Tree), there's a song called "Priests and Paramedics," in which Mr. Bazan confesses, "Lately I've been wondering why we go to so much trouble to postpone the unavoidable and prolong the pain of being alive".
An article on why good accountants do bad audits in this month's HBR, for example, argues that the problem with auditing is not so much corruption as the unconscious, and unavoidable, biases of all of us and of accountants in particular.On the jacket, Michael Dell, of the eponymous computer company, says this is "a book we'll want every executive in training at Dell to read".
It was not so much an attractive prospect, I decided, as an unavoidable obligation.
Scotland absorbed a huge amount of pressure, in the first half particularly, so much so that an even more forgiving assessment might recognise that penalties are all but unavoidable.
