[ClearCase_guy]

In about 1977, the music group The Band decided to break up. Their last concert was filmed by Martin Scorsese and became the film The Last Waltz. At the time, band leader Robbie Robertson explained that The Band had been together for fifteen years. An eternity! Fifteen Years! He just couldn't imagine doing that gig for much longer than that, so they called it quits.

At the time, the Rolling Stones had been together for roughly 15 years. Now, here we are 35 years later, and the Stones are still together, and are considering a possible tour. Perhaps The Band could have stuck it out longer. (In fact, there have been reunions of different sorts over the years.)

Today's musical people? Lady Gaga? Justin Beiber? Their half life is measured in months.

[muawiyah]

They are all up against Youtube. In fact we will shortly be posting some new videos about the lives of the saints, how the Dark Ages really were, and, of course, THE END OF THE WORLD (as anybody knows it).

Seriously!

Watch this space

GAGA ain't got nothin'.

[ReignOfError]

You're comparing apples and oranges. Sure, the Stones are still rocking, but how many novelty acts of that era have moved on and are now retired realtors with grandchildren? Napoleon XIV, or the Archies, or the Classics IV?

Lady Gaga is a fad, and I'd wager that she and the folks around her know it. I reach the opposite conclusion from the Townhall writer -- by going mainstream and mid-market, they're milking the phenomenon for all they can grab on the way down. Can't blame them.

But for all the silliness, at the middle of it is a young woman with genuine talent; see this pre-Gaga video. Listening to that song, I hope that when the Gaga fad has burned out, when she's financially set for life, she'll record an album I would actually consider buying.

[GOPJ]

New song by Leonard Cohen:

http://www.leonardcohen.com/us/oldideas

[Rocko]

In about 1977, the music group The Band decided to break up. Their last concert was filmed by Martin Scorsese and became the film The Last Waltz. At the time, band leader Robbie Robertson explained that The Band had been together for fifteen years. An eternity! Fifteen Years! He just couldn't imagine doing that gig for much longer than that, so they called it quits.

That's not the complete story. Robertson did quit for a solo career, but the rest reformed and toured from 1983 to 1983 in smaller venues. Richard Manuel committed suicide that final year, and the group later played at various special concerts.

[beebuster2000]

i believe robbie robertson said they had been “on the road” for twenty years and that was enough. i can understand that.

[Salamander]

And Alice will be around to send them *all* "dead flowers"....:)

[dfwgator]

Now, here we are 35 years later, and the Stones are still together, and are considering a possible tour.

The Stones have been a joke since the 80s. The Beatles broke up at the right time.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Today’s musical people? Lady Gaga? Justin Beiber? Their half life is measured in months. *****

Back in the late 1960s and early 1970s i noticed that the average time on the cover of a teen magazine was three months. Then you were gone.

And I never could figure out why teen girls liked teen boys who looked like girls.

[rabidralph]

I watch that concert film about once a year and I get a little depressed, thinking about what passes for music these days.

[morphing libertarian]

Is Miley Cyrus over yet?