I am watching...

[chronic]

... the most pathetic thing I've seen in a while. The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Award show. I was just flipping through the channels and spotted The Stooges. They started to perform I Wanna Be Your Dog to all the evening gowns and gucci suits in the audience and at the first chorus, Iggy sings "and now I wanna" then points the mic at the audience who just sit there looking uncomfortable. Not one of them that I can see with a clue as to just what they're supposed to do.

Towards the end of the song Iggy starts saying "Let's get some of you rich people up here" and ends up with maybe fifteen of the gowns and suits onstage bouncing around looking oh-so-stupid.

I'm sorry, but I thought a rock hall of fame was a dumb idea when it started. I think this proves that I was correct for once in my life.

Next up... ABBA presented by a couple of the surviving Bee Gees!

 

[Purple Stickpin]

You brought this on yourself man. No sympathy here.

 

[chronic]

Not looking for sympathy, but maybe a little empathy?

 

[ROC]

That sounds worse than the Grammys. Rock music only works if everyone agrees to act as stupid as everyone else.

 

[mjp]

The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame Award show [...] The Stooges...

Oh, were they inducted? Tenth time's the charm, eh? I guess they had to wait until one of them died.

The R&RHOF is like OUTLAW POETS. Iggy should have told them to go screw, ala Lydon:

But he was neutered a long time ago. The dangerous, interesting Iggy died in the 70s.

 

[nervas]

I never understood the hall of fame, you'll see Dee Dee Ramone giving the greatest acceptance speech in the hall of fame history!
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[ROC]

It's sad when 50 year old men wear the same hair style as when they were teens.

 

[nervas]

Roc, they all felt the same as you do, but apparently Johnny Ramone insisted on it, and they all listened. Ha, ha. He was quite the tyrant!

 

[mjp]

It's sad when 50 year old men wear the same hair style as when they were teens.

Sadder still for 67 year old men...

But then some of us just say FTW! and do whatever we want.

You know, like me and Mick Jagger. That's just how we roll.

 

[ROC]

Man, that sucks!

I had less hair than that when I was 25. :(

 

[nervas]

I love Mick's hair, he's rocking that feathered-do!

 

[Stavrogin]

It's sad when 50 year old men wear the same hair style as when they were teens.

As I get older I'm certainly in agreement with you. Rockers should be vaporized at the age of 30 (a la Logan's Run) - unless it's the Pixies - then fuck off.

 

[mjp]

I don't know about that. If you're successful and don't have to ride around in a van and sleep on people's living room floors, why not keep your freak flag flying?

Where it gets a bit pathetic for me is when you are riding around in a van and sleeping on people's living room floors way past your expiration date...

But yeah, you said "rock" and I think that only applies to rawk n rowl. There's nothing weird about a 60 year old jazz, country or reggae musician. Seems natural. But the rock is a young person's game.

But as someone who had the good sense to retire at the age of 30, I can tell you that you don't change when you hang up the guitar. I still want to turn it up somewhere and disturb the peace 20 years later. I don't do it, but I still want to.

 

[esart]

As another "ex-musician" I have to say, this is more sad: still wanting to do it, and not doing it because you think you're too old (or for whatever reason that has a bit to do with fear). We are whatcha call "has beens." Or is it hasbeans? That seems a lot cuter.

Well, at least we have our hair!

 

[mjp]

Yeah, FTW!

And the R&R HOF!

Has anyone ever been to the R&R HOF? The closest I came was the Fender guitar factory display of old guitars out in Corona (wait, I see that is called the FENDER MUSEUM OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS - I beg their pardon). That was kind of cool, but got a bit dodgy when they started adding personalities and stopped focusing on the hardware.

I think the R&R HOF would just make me sad. You know, as much as I would like to see a smashed SG, an old LP cover ("this was called a gatefold - look at how big it is!") or Prince's panties from the Dirty Mind album cover...

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I get my haircut about once a year, been that way for about 10 years ever since I quit a job where I wore a suit everyday. had sort of an early mid life crisis, I suppose.

I'm probably too old to have long hair and people might think I'm silly or odd or trying too hard, but I don't care. I'm rocking the locks, and don't see myself changing that. unless I have another midlife crisis. heh.

but to bring this back to the original topic and to stop talking about myself for a second (it'll be tough, but I think I'll be able to do it), I think the R&R HOF is silly and sad and a waste of time and John Lydon is an atrocious speller!

 

[d gray]

and it looks like he dictated it to the zodiac killer.

 

[Ambreen]

But he was neutered a long time ago. The dangerous, interesting Iggy died in the 70s.

I strongly hope my friend and I are going to find tickets for one of the two sold out gigs of the said neutered Iggy with Eiffel as the supporting band!

It's sad when 50 year old men wear the same hair style as when they were teens.

But it can still suit them! I could quote you a bunch of examples but right now, I only have Robert Plant or Steve Harris in mind. Long haired men are attractive, however old they are! No joke, dudes! Now, go get your hair (or what remains of it :D) grow again!

Sadly, it doesn't work for poor Axl Rose :(:

Man, that sucks!
I had less hair than that when I was 25. :(

It is highly probable that it's fake. Mick Jagger can afford it. ;) And I don't agree with Nervas, that hair-cut doesn't rock, I actually don't find it manly at all. :D

 

[Bukfan]

It's sad when 50 year old men wear the same hair style as when they were teens.

Right, people who had short hair as teens should not have short hair at 50. ;)

 

[ROC]

You got me there, Bufan.

I made a pretty big assumption that Big Hair was the issue here.

There is only one way a real man wears his hair -

:D

 

[marina del rey]

Now there is a haircut you can set your watch to!

 

[slimedog]

It should be called the Anti-rock n roll hall of fame. It's like looking to organized religions for spirtuality or government agencies for justice, you're just looking at the worst possible place for your quest.

 

[Bukfan]

It should be called the Anti-rock n roll hall of fame.

Right! They have'nt even inducted Canned Heat although the band was among the 10 most famous bands in the world from 1968 to 1970, with major hits like, "On The Road Again", "Going Up The Country", and "Let's Work Together".

 

[mjp]

whuck?

Canned Heat was never one of the 1000 most famous bands in the world...they weren't even one of the 10 most famous bands at Woodstock.

Canned Heat?

Maybe outside of the U.S. But here they were a very minor band. If they hadn't been in the Woodstock movie they would have probably been completely forgotten by now, except by a few hippies living in teepees and geodesic domes up in Topanga Canyon.

Canned Heat?!

 

[Bukfan]

Yes, they were very popular over here. And they did perform together with many of the great bands of the time at various concerts (apart from Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock), such as The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother And The Holding Company etc., at places like the Fillmore, The whiskey A Go Go, Winterland, and at many many festivals all over the world.
As for being among the 10 most famous bands in 1968-1970, I read that in a book about the band so it might be biased but it sounded okay to me because I knew they were very popular in Europe back then. I really thought they were a big name in the US too (at the time), but if you say they were a minor band then I'll have to accept it. It does come as a surprise though, because many of their albums became gold albums. Oh well...

Here's a pic of some of their gold records (more than one million copies sold of each of them)

 

[ROC]

The true genius and significance of the phenomenon that was canned heat has yet to be fully absorbed in the US.

Elsewhere they are worshipped as the musical gods they are.

Canned heat rock!

But what do you expect when Kermit the frog fronts a band?!

 

[Bukfan]

But what do you expect when Kermit the frog fronts a band?!

Well, I never thought of Bob "The Bear" Hite as Kermit the frog, but you may have a point. :D

 

[Stavrogin]

Love me some Canned Heat. mjp, stop being such a shit.:mad: Don't make me break out a can of emoticon on you again.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

I think real Canned Heat fans, from the day, cannot remember any thing from, The day.

 

[Stavrogin]

What are you suggesting, Gerard? That Canned Heat fans are....losing train of thought - reread Gerard's post....prone to favoring....whatever happened to Phyllis Diller?....heightened states of awareness....I hear a bird singing, I like birds....and the thinning air....did I pay my gas bill? what am I writing? reread Gerard's post....decreases our mental faculties....