Too old to rock? (ROCK'N'ROLL IS DEAD)

Chicago Tribune ^ | May 10, 2009 | Mark Caro | Tribune reporter

[Chi-townChief]

Hopefully, they didn’t show too many closeups.

[Chi-townChief]

LOL

[Chi-townChief]

Yeah, I made a Fabian reference at work the other day; I don’t think anyone got it.

[Skooz]

BFL

[nomorelurker]

you are correct

Just go find it.

Youtube up Widespread Panic. Preferably with Ann Marie Otherwise just a bunch of old gray haired guys with potbellies who are not too bad.

[DeLaine]

technicalities, technicalities

[radiohead]

<Real Rock & Roll will never die but I sure hope Rap and Hip-Hop kills (keels?) over.

Amen. I hate that crap. I was part of a research project that included watching a hip hop video. As a researcher myself, I try to help other people doing projects, but good googa mooga, I could not watch that stuff, and it was one of the more benign, positive message videos.

I’m listening to Bush ‘Machinehead’ as I type. I’m a fan of radiohead, the Smashing Pumpkins, as well as just about anything that’s Classic Rock (I went to college in the ‘70s). I don’t care if I’m 55, I like rock and will be playing Zeppelin and Ozzy in the retirement home.

Still, it often shocks me to run into ‘older people’ online who also like rock - until I realize they are my age. : )

[oh8eleven]

Yeah, I made a Fabian reference at work the other day; I don’t think anyone got it.
I'm a boomer - was at a staff meeting a few years ago and one of the younger members made a comment about working with Moby in one of our ad campaigns.
I asked the guy next to me how the hell we were going to work a whale into the ad and he explained who Moby was. Who knew? LOL ...

[truth_seeker]

I must note that BB King is the headliner at the upcoming Doheney Blues Feswtival.

He is 83 and still very, very good.

Blues, rock, R&B, boogie woogie, call it what you want.

Some people are very good, and keep on going. Clapton comes to my mind.

[chris_bdba]

It kind of flipped me out when I realized that most of these people were either older than my parents were or nearly the same age!

[BunnySlippers]

"You try to do 'Communication Breakdown' in these pants."

Now THAT'S funny!!!

[Sarajevo]

Mick is turning 66? Geez-o-petes! I am getting old!

[Former War Criminal]

Did you misspeak?

Rock & Roll died on August 16, 1977.

It has, however, made more money dead than alive.

[Chi-townChief]

Yeah, and he doesn’t look a day over 85.

[rawcatslyentist]

The Spring rax.

[Revolting cat!]

Rock'n'roll BING!

[Revolting cat!]

#76

[dayglored]

> This is Tal Wilkenfeld. You play with Jeff Beck and Vinnie Colaiuta, you've got some chops. She's absolutely brilliant. And 21 years old. THIS is her at Crossroads 2007. Her solo's at 2:15. Just damn.

I am utterly in awe. As a guitarist for over 40 years (and Jeff Beck fan from way back), who has only in the last few years really started to master the bass (I favor a 5-string), I feel like a complete neophyte watching her play.

Thank you so much for posting this link -- it made my day, and has changed my outlook substantially.

[dayglored]

> I'm tempted to strap on the old guitar, put a Hard Rock band together and rock on, but I'm a 50 year old geezer, who's gonna listen to or watch me?

I'm 57, started playing in 1964 at age 12. I'm still playing rock and electric blues out at clubs and small festivals, for crowds that range from age 18 to 60, with a median somewhere around 30. There are audiences who will listen and watch, if you're playing good music.

So stop whining, tune up the ol' 6-string, and PLAY!!! You only get older as time goes on.... ;-)

[RichInOC]

KROQ in Los Angeles regularly plays Johnny Cash’s cover version of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt”. Johnny recorded that when he was 70, give or take. And they play it back-to-back with songs by musicians young enough to be his kids, if not grandkids, if not great-grandkids.

Pretty cool.