Posted on 05/10/2009 3:00:23 PM PDT by Chi-townChief
Let's first acknowledge that we've moved well beyond the irony of "I hope I die before I get old" and the fact that the Who's Pete Townshend, who wrote the lyric, did get old, though his band's drummer didn't.
Let's also let Mick Jagger off the hook for famously declaring, "I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45." With the Rolling Stones singer turning 66 in July, he has had more than 20 years and several world tours to eat those words.
We will, however, give consideration to Robert Plant's explanation earlier this year that he shot down a Led Zeppelin reunion in part for fear of fans' "disappointment" and "the comparisons to something that was basically fired by youth and a different kind of exuberance. ... It's very hard to go back and meet that head on and do it justice."
Or as he told a reporter backstage at the Grammys: "You try to do 'Communication Breakdown' in these pants."
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LOL - line of the day!
Hip-Hop is sometimes tolerable. Rap? I guess if it didn’t exist, Obama would have to invent it to provide an excuse to keep him in office.
I saw U2 at RFK Stadium in the early 90's - another great show.
Moody Blues killed it, Jethro Tull killed it, Yes killed it, Iron Butterfly killed it, Grand Funk Railroad killed it, Emerson Lake & Palmer killed it, all those ridiculous 70s “art” rock groups killed it, and the fans of them never even heard of the Blasters!
Jaco Pastorius is alive and well and inhabiting Tal’s body. What a phenom!
Loved ‘em both (Beck and Tal).
This stuff has more lives than a cat.
That is true to an extent. Someone once said (Muddy Waters??) that Rock needs a kick start with Blues and that has occurred from time to time - SRV, Lynyrd....
Hey! I like Prog Rock AND “Dave Alvin and the BLASTERS”!
:) I saw it on a T shirt once.
Let me tell you wimps something. Tom Jones is still a badass vocal, and blows the doors off of every venue he plays at, and he’s from the Sinatra era. Basically, you guys stink!!!
Tom Jones? What about Engelbert?
I remember 78 (or was it 79? Twas a little hazy, ya' know . . OK, smoky haze, LOL!). All disco with the Bee Gees squeezing their crotches to scream like girls and Travolta dancing around like he was trying to get fire ants out of his clothes - UGH! And everybody loving it!
Then - finally - along came Van Halen and Rock was reborn. Then we hit the 80's and all the Big Hair Ballad song bands, but that was OK - Rock was back.
What are supposed to do now, though? 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? Where are the 17 year old rockers with the energy to this stuff now? Have all the boys been feminazi'd to the point of being woosies finally?
/ endrant
Uh, actually, with rock gone, only one of those two remaining is going to live very long.
I haven’t seen Englebert in concert, but I did see Tom Jones in Vegas not too many years ago. The guy still has it!
If you think Rock is dead, you’ve never been to Austin Tx or Cleveland Ohio
Unfortunately, they listen to dance or rap; some stuff like Fallout Boy or OAR is tolerable but doesn’t really kick ass like Chuck Berry or the early British Invasion stuff.
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