Meet The Zimmers and their amazing cover of The Who's "My Generation".

MySpace and YouTube ^ | May 14, 2007 | The Zimmers

[3AngelaD]

The oldest and greatest rock band in the world - Lead singer Alf is 90 - it's quite something when he sings "I hope I die before I get old". And he's not the oldest - there are 99 and 100-year-olds in the band!

The Zimmers will feature in a BBC TV documentary being aired in May 2007. Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over Britain recruiting isolated and lonely old people - those who can't leave their flats or who are stuck in rubbish care homes.

The finale of the show is this group of lonely old people coming together to stick it back to the society that's cast them aside - by forming a rock troupe and trying to storm into the pop charts.

Some massive names from the pop world have thrown their weight behind The Zimmers... The song is produced by Mike Hedges (U2, Dido, Cure), the video shot by Geoff Wonfor (Band Aid, Beatles Anthology), and it was recorded in the legendary Beatles studio 2 at Abbey Road.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqfFrCUrEbY

www.myspace.com/thezimmersband

[3AngelaD]

See Granny play windmill air guitar. See gramps with ATTITUDE. They also did a cover of "Won't be Fooled Again."

[raccoonradio]

Don Zimmer! How’s he been since he had that little on field
dustup with Pedro Martinez? :)

[Mr. Brightside]

Maybe Eddie VanHalen can join the band.

[Spruce]

Holy! Wow! He looks like sh*t!

[3AngelaD]

No wonder his cute little wife divorced him.

[Moose4]

I think I saw him begging in the middle of the intersection near my apartment last week.

}:-)4

[kjam22]

I agree.... he looks T E R R I B L E

[jdsteel]

COOL video! I could’ve done without the last frame, but good for those folks!

[wideawake]

Sadly, she is not so little any more. She is now appearing as a “before” in Weight Watchers commercials with Kirstie Alley.

[randog]

Maybe Eddie VanHalen can join the band.

That ol' hag?

[Mr. Brightside]

He looks like Granny on Bevery Hillbillies.

[sarasota]

Drugs’ll do that to you.

[Spruce]

He definitely looks as if he’s been hanging-around with Jim Beam or Jack Daniels for a while.

[dead]

That video would have been much better if I took acid.

[3AngelaD]

But you’d have to chase it with your Pepcid AC.

[perfect stranger]

ping

[Mercat]

All we have to do is close down “Country Kitchen” and they’ll all take their walkers and go home.

[3AngelaD]

I don’t care if she’s the Goodyear blimp, she has to look better than he does.

[Jo Nuvark]

Interesting. The “finger” guy at the end
looked like a young guy made up to look old.
That gesture is an insult to those fine people.
They’ve been Borated.

[3AngelaD]

I disagree. I think it was a comment on and response to the way old people are treated in England, which is also what the story indicated. But the “finger” guy did look a little odd. I liked windmill guitar granny the best. She made me burst out laughing, having seen the Who do it so many times.