Sorry, but Jagger's got nothin' on his bandmate:
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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For me, it was when the bulge in my jeans became my belly...
Thanks, I'll be sure to miss that one.
I’m tempted to go see The Offspring at Northerly Island, though!
Debbie Harry is 64?!!
Jagger looks like a prune now but a friend tells me he’s a fitness nut.
The old rockers will go on to their respective rewards, but new ones are springing up daily. They seem to thrive on tough times.
Taj Mahal looks like the best show to me
Rock and Roll got rich selling kids the illusion that they didn’t have to get old like Mom and Dad if they didn’t want to. It was a huge lie, a lie as big as Blood and Soil or The Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The West’s big innovation was to atomize the lie, so that it made lots of people rich, famous, and powerful, instead of just a tiny, secretive cabal.
Last I saw, almost all forms of marketed music are dying except for Country.
I would pay a dollar today to see the Stones,The Who or any other stars from the 60's or 70's.
Rock and Roll started dying right after Frampton’s Comes Alive album. It was killed when Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson (thru CBS records) forced MTV to play their stuff (MTV died at that time too, imho).
She was fairly old when Blondie finally hit.
Wow, I thought it was because people liked their music and bought their records....go figure
I think it started dying around the Sgt. Pepper time period when these guys all started thinking they were “artists.” But, for me, the mid-90s was about it so give rock a 40-year run.
Well, perhaps I'm taking myself a bit too seriously today.
Sorry, but Jagger's got nothin' on his bandmate:
umm. Bad visual
If you really pay attention to the words, most rock and roll is dumb. But no one really pays attention.
Rock is dead
(long live paper and scissors)
I would pay=I wouldn’t pay
I read somewhere that Led Zeppelin still sells 3 million records a year.
I think their last album was Coda, back in '80 ish. Zep died with Bonham, but Page and Plant were great in Un Ledded about ten years ago
Towards the other end of the lifespan, Grandpa/Grandma rock is definitely a curio.
I understand, completely :)
<3 Daughtry!
Then they proclaim Rock and Roll "dead" while waiting for the 50th Digitally Remastered "Foreigner" compilation.
It's all very humorous.
Like a cat, there appears to be much more than one life to it. The “and roll” part is often considered superfluous language today. It’s just called rock, or rawk if it is particularly rawkous.
We went up to Hershey, PA a couple years ago to see the Stones. I was in high school and college in the 70’s attending as many concerts as I could possibly squeeze in - I saw many great shows. I have to say that the Stones show was the best show I have ever been to. I was seriously worried it was going to be a huge disappointment. Mick Jagger is in AWESOME shape and in great voice as is Keith Richards. They played for over 2 hours and Mick never stopped moving - he has to be in much better shape than most 20 year olds.
Oh, and the trend now seems to be to dress up like a biker on Halloween.
I’m old enough to have been backstage at Carnegie Hall during the Rolling Stones first American tour. My opinion of them was that they were crap.
Some of it was great music, but looking at the “cultural revolution” of the 1960’s I got to say that it would have been better for Western Civilization had it never been.
It occurred to me that U2 is the very last band that will be able to do stadium tours, after that, it’s over.
So who does (or did) good rock/rawk? Stones were before my day (preteen kids don’t care much about that sort of stuff).
Amen. Good music is timeless, Rap and Hip-Hop are just angry mind numbing noise
Mebbe so, mebbe no. This is Tal Wilkenfeld. You play with Jeff Beck and Vinnie Colaiuta, you've got some chops. She's absolutely brilliant. And 21 years old.
THIS is her at Crossroads 2007. Her solo's at 2:15. Just damn.
“RocknRoll is Dead” is a great album by the Hellacopters. There’s great Rock being made today. Can’t help it if the popular media is too faggoty to play it.
Freegards
It’s been dead since the King (Paul McCartney) died in 1968!
I think that revolution gave it its peculiar form (from early days quite sex obsessed) and power. Hypothetically without that, and in fact today with virtually none of its original enemies around to rebel against, it is just so much peppy and boisterous music. Shoot, the “prude” Mike Huckabee plays rock (the group is called Capitol Offense).
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”!
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