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(do you have to be “of a certain age” for your music to be considered “classic rock”?)
(who coined the term?)
(i’d like to shake his hand!
(macca’s “shake a hand” off ‘run devil run’)
(little richard song)
cover that song!
(if not, what’s the “cutoff date”?)
(oldest and newest songs considered “classic rock”)
(what’s the criteria?)
(guitar-based music?)
(‘the beatles’ were told by ‘decca’ that “guitar groups” were on their way out)
(making a mockery of so-called ‘classic’ rock)
(that of my parents’ generation)
(that of which i was raised on)
(i grew to appreciate it more than my parents ever did)
(go figure!)
(sure, their corporal bodies tour the world in wheelchairs and collect their millions (but their muses have long since flown their respective nests))
while dylan makes millions, macca makes mounds
one deals in dollars and one paid in pounds
and now that their legacies long since secured
they buy all the attention that they can afford
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*MY INFLUENCES*
pre-ono macca + pre-linda lennon collaborations
(think ‘day in the life’)
paul mccartney 1966 – 1986
(from ‘eleanor rigby’ to ‘pretty little head’)
brian wilson 1966 – 1976
(from ‘pet sounds’ to ‘ding dang!’)
neil young
(whenever he started smoking grass in earnest, i’d say round 1970’s ‘after the gold rush’)
joni mitchell at her least self-important
jim morrison at his most self-important
jimi hendrix
(i prefer his postmortem releases)
fat elvis
mick jagger’s hips, tina turner’s lips, and stevie nicks’ tits
*keith richards’ picking hand*
*eddie van halen’s fretting hand, and slash’s guitar tone*
the very first led zeppelin jam session
(sometime round august 1968 while the beatles were deep in their white album sessions)
(pretty cool huh?)
pink floyd ’round the time they filmed ‘live at pompeii’
(‘echoes’ should be the national anthem of the new world order)
the buckleys, however transitory might they be
david lee roth and axl rose in their darkest moments
i trace all my musical influences back to aerosmith’s ‘get a grip’ album.
i thought paul mccartney was aping steven tyler when i first heard the coda of ‘hey jude’.
how’s that for backwards thinking?
then i heard the ‘back to the egg’ album and discovered that ‘macca’ really did pander to the very artists he influenced)
(that’s my least favorite thing about him. but who am i to judge?)
lynyrd skynyrd too. back in high school,
‘sweet home alabama’ was just about the purest thing i’d ever heard.
and ‘freebird’ blew my mind wide open all the way back in middle school when i used to carry around a portable CD player like some sort of anachronism.
i’d stick stevie wonder and prince on the flip side of that very same coin.
(and not just because they’re black. (though that is undoubtedly a significant factor as to why black artists are discriminated against in the “classic rock” realm)
(except for “jimi hendrix” of course)
(“the world’s first black superstar”)
(he seemed to prefer white women)
(think he was mixed race himself)
(tiger woods mistresses were prob all “non-negro” at the very least)
but because they are complicators of the rock essence (which is really just the male libido), whereas skynyrd and steven tyler take things down to the lowest common denominator (which is often just as fun))
but all the aforementioned are fundamentally limited.
even at his funkiest, stevie wonder is too good-natured to capture the panorama of the human experience that the beatles could transmit.
it was lennon’s assholian ways that sent a lot of their sappiest stuff soaring. and prince’s egomania renders him one-dimensional as well.
it’s either wails of unrequited love or preparatory cries in anticipation of sexual ecstasy.
prince couldn’t very well sing convincingly of a rocky raccoon.
and we wouldn’t expect (nor particularly want) him to jut pack up and run away)
if these classic rock dinosaurs were really cunning, they’d start releasing these types of themed albums that correlate with their historical ups-n-downs.
(tasteless or not, if you think it’ll sell then go for it!)
(like the beatles’ ‘pre-pot releases’)
(anything before ’64)
(what day did ‘bob dylan’ introduce ;the beatles’ to ‘dope’)
(or however they referred to it back then)
(that was dylan’s best contribution to ‘music’ in general)
(what if the beatles ever statted smoking marijuana
(after overwhelming “society” when armies of screaming teenage girls the beatesplaced temselves squarely above the law
with absolute power
(corrupts absolutely
(who said that?
Oaul said we did good thing , coulve gone hitler route or maybr wosr
onformit rouse)
“dinosaurs”
it’s high time for all classic rock dinosaurs to pass on their torches and anoint their successors. doesn’t necessarily have to be me. but what good does it for mccartney/springsteen/dylan to play MSG for the millionth time? those concerts are way expensive to put on. and they’re being paid for by record companies + sponsors desperate for profits. so they pander to a nostalgia-addicted generation who can’t come up with musical icons of their own.
all except for brian wilson. brian has very right to soldier on until his blessed heart giveth out. for all the shit he had to put up with from his so-called comrades, he should keep making music for as long as he can. although he shouldn’t be allowed to perform. for his own sake. (when i suggested this to the overgrown fairy in fall 2006, he got all catty and suggested ‘at least he sings in tune’, implying that i didn’t. and mad cow’s ‘guilty laugh’ only confirmed for me what the fairy was implying.)
i went to see springsteen + the e street band @ giants stadium in the summer of 2003. i drove up there with my sister and we picked up the tickets from the old man’s beta male comrade/whipping boy cosmo. i recall hitting 100mph on route 78 just to impress the little sister. went so fast that my car door was permanently bent.
the concert was OK. but i found nothing cathartic about it.
springsteen sings to the meathead masses and romanticizes their mediocrity.
i sing to outliers + decry their overlooked geniuses.
so who has the bigger potential audience?
(*this is how i conveniently explain away my lack of musical success*)
(the irony of it all is that those i write for are too jaded to embrace the music i offer them.
so they listen to whatever they’re not expected to listen to instead.
(just so that their listening habits highlight their own decision-making processes rather than the actual person/entity making the music)
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