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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Hopefully, they didn’t show too many closeups.
LOL
Yeah, I made a Fabian reference at work the other day; I don’t think anyone got it.
BFL
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.
technicalities, technicalities
<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. : )
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.
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!
Now THAT'S funny!!!
Mick is turning 66? Geez-o-petes! I am getting old!
Did you misspeak?
Rock & Roll died on August 16, 1977.
It has, however, made more money dead than alive.
Yeah, and he doesn’t look a day over 85.
The Spring rax.
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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.
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.... ;-)
Pretty cool.
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