Houston, TX, Music Hall, 1969....
I was there.....and he was good..and still raises the goosebumps....
Posted on 11/28/2005 3:51:41 PM PST by Hound of the Baskervilles
I'm posting this in hopes of getting opinions and advice about my growing annoyance of being bombarded with loud hard rock music everywhere I go. It's in grocery stores, department stores, even dentists offices, and it's ALWAYS on TV, in practically every single commercial.
What's worse, I got a job at a major chain department store that caters to mid-America. It's not Penny'S but it is on a par with Penny's/ The sotre plays mostly rock and roll all day long. At night it's nothing but hard rock. The Killers, Lynrd Skynrd, Blondie, Billie Idol, Swiftfoot, ZZ Top, and on and on and on. The music is loud too. (It's loud in most stores.) Not only that, in the store where I work the lyrics of some of the songs are raunchy. Aerosmiths Walk this Way is about oral and group sex. Billy Idol's Rebel Yell is about, well I can't print the words. Even the song, What's Your Name Little Girl, (don't know the artists) is about picking up a woman at a hotel and staying the night with her, plus a band member "having a go" with one of the guests.
This is just my opinion please you rock fans don't take offense. I hate rock music. It's worse than animals growling and screaming. The electric guitar is the most annoying instrument known to man. I am wearing earplugs to work and night and in most stores. Still I can hear it. Help me someone to understand why this music is the most popular form of music in the world. If you like it tell me why so I can try to understand and learn to live with it because there is no escaping it. If you don't like it please give me some sympathy!
Freebird is a well done song.
And it teaches a valuable lesson. If you do something with energy and conviction, it is entertaining.
Ever listen to limbaugh's replacement guests ? The content is the same, but the energy level is not.
Freebird is energetic and that is good enough.
The music isn't there for your enjoyment. It's there to re-assure customers that "Hey, this is your kind of place" and keep them moving/shopping.
Hey you kids! Get off my lawn!
The only music I want to hear in a store is classic Christmas carols, and that better be only at this time of year. Otherwise, shut the hell up, lemme shop, pay and get out.
Houston, TX, Music Hall, 1969....
I was there.....and he was good..and still raises the goosebumps....
As long as you don't knock the Allman Brothers.
As long as it is not "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer." I want to go postal every time that stupid song is played.
Oh man you are killing me.
Because Wal-Mart doesn't sell samolian folk music or gangsta rap...but at the same time, I can't see them putting on Bitches Brew, either. They'd have a bunch of guys in sunglasses lounging around, bobbing there heads whispering "coool, man. Can you dig it..."
Despite a bummer of day at work that cracked me up.
I give up. Who or what is Swiftfoot?
Great. Now I got that song stuck in my head until Jan 2, 2006
p.s.
I'm still waiting for Miles to rise from the grave with Charlie Parker and slap down Snoop Dogg for affecting a jazz persona without the required talent to back it up.
I believe in this instance, "having a go" meant getting into a fight..
We are the Brain Police! You will be assimilated!
Yeah, and we all know what Kiss stands for. Kings in Satan's service.
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