| August 20th, 2004 07:22 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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beer wrote:
Fuck Rock and Roll.
IT needs more gawd damn cowbell.
Until then, i'm through with it.
You missed the point about the piano I think. Look directly skyward about 6 feet up. And from that point downward you will see a cylindrycal type dunce cap of soft light form on top of your head. That's called a halo.
LOL. Or a cowbell of light. 
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| August 20th, 2004 07:23 PM |
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| gypsy |
I don't think Mrs. SS would like Tim McGraw. Granted, I don't know the woman, but I don't think she is a Tim McGraw fan. |
| August 20th, 2004 07:27 PM |
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| beer |
nope. i didnt miss Your point about piano. I'm ALL ABOUT the piano.Totally into the fucking piano. Sometimes when I'm in bed with my girlfriend, I imagine she is a sexy little piano.
I'm just more obsessed with the electric cowbell. |
| August 20th, 2004 07:33 PM |
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| gypsy |
Cowbells can literally "make" a song. Add a cowbell to any song, and turn it into a real gem. |
| August 20th, 2004 07:37 PM |
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| beer |
You DOn't even need a song Gypsy. I'm just gonna start making cowbell compilation tapes. Pure Cowbell, and nothing else. Well, PossIbly a whammy bar, attached to the cowbell, but thats it.
Then i'll tree 'em here on Rocks Off. |
| August 20th, 2004 07:40 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
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beer wrote: Sometimes when I'm in bed with my girlfriend, I imagine she is a sexy little piano.
Oh. Not to get too personal but, is that the same girl you're marrying soon?? |
| August 20th, 2004 07:48 PM |
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| beer |
of course! |
| August 20th, 2004 08:14 PM |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
>Let's say you get that dream Corvette...what would be the first song you listen to while taking it for that very first drive?<
Oh, I got it. Well, sort of. I paid the fella I'm buying it from $250.00 to not sell it to anyone else. As soon as the wife gets a full time teaching position, the fucker is all mine.
First song? Before I get the ultra kick ass sound system installed or after? Doesn't matter...it'll be the same song either way.
And anyone who pays attention will be able to tell you what it is.....
It's the correct answer to EVERY question.
Midnight Rambler.
Duh.
I put together a Midnight Rambler CDR. 78 fuckin' minutes of nothin' but Midnight Rambler. I may not play anything other than Midnight Rambler in the 'Vette. It's a '73 Stingray, T-tops, red. It's a sweet machine. A machine worthy of Midnight Rambler.
[Edited by Sir Stonesalot] |
| August 20th, 2004 08:34 PM |
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| justforyou |
The music business is changing, kids can leech all they need from the net, before they were big time buyers. The value of a current star is less, which new 'artist' can fill stadiums - Porno gals like Britney ? MTV has made the visuals more important - where would Janis Joplin be in todays world ? Kick out the jams MF's.... my feeling is the blues will be back.
Gonna ride on. |
| August 20th, 2004 08:50 PM |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
Gypsy...
Mrs SS loves Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Toby Keith....all that pop country horseshit. I think she only does it to annoy me.
I don't think I'm going to allow her in the Stingray.
[Edited by Sir Stonesalot] |
| August 20th, 2004 09:33 PM |
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| gypsy |
Midnight Rambler. Good choice. Thank you for answering the question.
Mrs. SS listens to that shit? It can't be just to annoy you. I just pray that your poor son doesn't like *that* shit too. I would compromise...tell her she cannot get into the 'vette unless she burns all of those janky CD's.
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| August 20th, 2004 09:34 PM |
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| gypsy |
beer, ask your girlfriend to pose nude w/ a cowbell. |
| August 20th, 2004 10:28 PM |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
>Midnight Rambler. Good choice. Thank you for answering the question.<
I know. You're welcome.
>Mrs. SS listens to that shit? It can't be just to annoy you.<
Yes she does, and yes it can.
>I just pray that your poor son doesn't like *that* shit too.<
Well, I guess your prayers are answered. My wife wanted to take him to see Tim McGraw, and he told her he didn't want to go. She puts on CMT and he leaves the room.
He's been listening to The Hives new album pretty much non-stop.
Mom has no chance.
>tell her she cannot get into the 'vette unless she burns all of those janky CD's.<
She doesn't really own any CDs. She just plays those stupid pop country radio stations...and watches CMT. Gak.
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| August 20th, 2004 11:48 PM |
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| beer |
Hey SS, if your son likes the new Hives album, he should check out the rerelease cd that just came out, if he doesn't already have it. I'ts called: The Hives - 'Your new favorite band'. The cool thing bout it is it comes with a free DVD that has two complete live shows, 3 videos, and a documentary on it. Like 90 minutes of footage. Its a good deal. |
| August 21st, 2004 12:06 AM |
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| gypsy |
I say when you get that Corvette, you divorce her. |
| August 21st, 2004 12:21 AM |
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| MarthaMyDear |
I bet I'm older than you, FG... I don't want to say how old I
am first, though!!! ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P  
LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!! HE!!! HE!!! HE!!! I
actually DID get carded (for cigarettes) TWICE this year,
though, which is ALL THAT COUNTS!!! lol......... At least in
my book (just playing)... And, shit...
lol......... ROCK ON!!!
*** Martha ***
[Edited by MarthaMyDear] |
| August 21st, 2004 02:37 AM |
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| gypsy |
You are very youthful-looking, MarthaMyDear. |
| August 21st, 2004 04:02 AM |
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| MarthaMyDear |
THANK YOU, GYPSY!!! I TRY, ACTUALLY!!!
LAUGHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Because I know that time waits for no
one... Sigh... That's a nice compliment!!! You
take great pix, yourself!!! TAKE CARE!!!
*** Martha *** |
| August 21st, 2004 07:45 AM |
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| luxury1 |
Oh, I dont think RnR's a young man's game. It's in your soul, or it aint. You cant "fake" it.
My 14 yr old twins listen to the "alternative rock" stations, and they play some good shit. I crack up that two of thier favorite songs right now are kick-ass raunchy guitar-crunchy covers of Don Henley's BOys of SUmmer, and Peter Gabriel's "In YOur Eyes" (that is the title of it, isnt it?--I just woke up). Green Day sounds good to me, I even like The Beastie Boys (are they rock n roll?). I went to a BLink 182 concert (Ok, I was sticking out like a sore MOM thumb). BUt I didnt care. That pop-punk trio ripped my head off with thier sound, musicianship, and they were damn funny to boot. I would go again, and not care how old the majority of the crowd was.
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| August 21st, 2004 11:32 AM |
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| egon |
R&R isn’t dead, it's merely taking a power nap.
We are at the end of the road when it comes to really new music, so all we can do is recycle.
At this moment the kids love (lolly)pop, rap & star academy/american idols, (or any kind of "music" that does not involve a guitar & drum).
But this will pass and one day kids will turn to R&R again (and realise what they've missed).
Then again, maybe I’m just an old cunt that should stop pretending that he knows kids.
One thing though; rap isn’t R&R!
And BTW; if you'd ask my neighbours if rock was dead, they'd definitely tell you "NO" (and then call the cops).
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| August 21st, 2004 12:10 PM |
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| glencar |
"power nap" LOL OK, I'll buy that. |
| August 21st, 2004 12:21 PM |
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| steel driving hammer |
Rock and Roll is just Rock and Roll...
Don't try to analize it, just enjoy it.
All I know it I like it like it, yes I do.
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| August 21st, 2004 01:37 PM |
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| egon |
hammer,
tell me about those photos... |
| August 21st, 2004 03:02 PM |
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| mac_daddy |
yeah, sdh - who is in those pics w/ keef..?
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quote:
Factory Girl wrote:
I've been to shows where I felt old-Jet, the Strokes.
But because I really like these bands, I belonged there.
Btw, I'm going to get Libertines tix, yes!!!
from today's la times:
The Libertines' show at the Troubadour on Thursday was a loud, taut, propulsive, punk-powered display that gave some hints about why this group has become a phenomenon in its native England.
Just imagine what it would have been like if the whole band had been playing.
In the latest plot twist to one of rock's most garish recent soap operas, the Libertines' co-leader, Peter Doherty, has been exiled from the band until he kicks his drug addiction.
The group set the condition after a series of failed rehabilitations and sporadic reconciliations. Doherty once stormed offstage during a show, and there was fighting in the recording studio. The saga's low point might have been the episode last summer when Doherty burglarized the flat of Libertines co-founder Carl Barat, resulting in severely damaged relations and two months in jail for Doherty.
All this is taking place at a time when the group is releasing its crucial second album and embarking on a demanding concert schedule. U.S. fans will be jumping onto this runaway train in midjourney.
For Barat, though, it's old news and an unhappy topic.
He thought he'd be getting away from it when he left the domain of Britain's tabloids, which have documented every break-up and make-up with their famous breathlessness and tenacity. But here he is, sitting in the Troubadour bar the afternoon before the show, being asked again about the last thing he wants to talk about.
"Yeah, it's pretty much pretty difficult," he says of performing without his partner. "But I'm doin' the right thing and staying true to what I believe. It isn't changing. Pete knows where I am; he knows he's welcome."
Barat, 26, is stoic about the emotional toll it's taking on him.
"You've got no choice, so you don't give up.... I've always taken it as it comes, really. Sort of optimism for the future."
This isn't the future Barat dreamed about when he teamed up with Doherty in the late '90s. With its guerrilla tactics — including last-minute, unannounced shows at the corner pub and even in their own apartment — the team quickly drew a following of fans eager for an alternative to the established music machinery.
It didn't hurt that Doherty and Barat generated creative sparks too. The Libertines, rounded out by bassist John Hassell and drummer Gary Powell, sounded completely distinctive even as they evoked a classic line of British rock influences, from the Kinks, Beatles and Who to the Smiths and the Clash (whose Mick Jones has produced their two albums).
Dashing and scruffy, defiant and vulnerable, they became one of the biggest things in England when Rough Trade Records released their debut album, "Up the Bracket," last year. It captured the pace, tensions and intensity of London life, as well as a romantic idealism citing medieval Albion and mythic Arcadia.
"The response of the fans was quite riotous," Barat says. "People feel they are the Libertines and part of it and it's something shared. In England it's certainly breaking down a few barriers, which is good. The kids who come to our shows are part of what we do. They really are furiously inspired by what we do."
"This is the most culturally significant band maybe since punk," says the band's manager, Alan McGee, who has been involved over the years with such groups as the Jesus and Mary Chain, Oasis and the Hives. "They've inspired a whole generation of new bands. The problem with Britpop was that the bands that followed Oasis were terrible, but the groups that will be coming after the Libertines are really great bands."
Given Barat and Doherty's bent for emotional immediacy, it's no surprise that "The Libertines," which comes out Aug. 31, is largely a document on the turmoil that's afflicted the group. Recorded under tense conditions, the album has the live presence the band treasures, and some of the songs are ripped right from the heart of the conflict. In "Can't Stand Me Now," the two bandmates argue their positions in alternating verses, then overlap the title phrase into a captivating chorus.
The song came fairly early in the Troubadour show, one of two U.S. dates this week previewing the band's fall U.S. tour. The hourlong set held the crowd with its loose-limbed, casual precision and turbocharged roar (guitarist Anthony Rossomando is on board as a touring member), but Doherty's absence deprived it of the charisma and chemistry that he and Barat can conjure together, not to mention the sonic and narrative dimension of the two voices and personalities.
But Barat showed that he can keep this thing afloat by himself, at least for a time, especially when the band softened the attack and let a more reflective side emerge. For the first encore, he sang the new album's closing song, "Whatever Became of the Likely Lads," a tender summation and plea whose closing lines ring with longing and uncertainty: "What became of the dreams we had? What became of forever? ... We'll never know."
During the afternoon interview, Barat is visibly relieved when the subject changes from mayhem to music.
"Do you like the new record?" he asks with a sudden enthusiasm. "Do you think there's more to it than just self-obsessed introversion? I'd like it to mean things to people who've never heard of the band's strife....
"I think there's some optimism going through there.... I'm the world's biggest cynic, but you have to be optimistic when there's no choice."
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| August 21st, 2004 03:57 PM |
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| Factory Girl |
Thank you, maccy. Like I always say, a junkie lead singer (no matter how great) will bring a band down. That said, I'm still getting Libertines tix.
Should I see Scissor Sisters also?? I have no idea what they do. And, I don't want to be around foofy and fey crowd...not that there is anything wrong with that.
Gypsy/beer-follow the cowbell... |
| August 21st, 2004 06:51 PM |
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| gypsy |
Baby Steelie has quite a rack...but the green swimsuit is sooo eighties. |
| August 21st, 2004 11:01 PM |
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| glencar |
The Libertines were on Jimmy Kimmel last night. I didn't see it but someone I worked with tonight said he saw them. |
| August 22nd, 2004 07:47 PM |
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| stonedinaustralia |
is it a young man's "game" - well yes - depending on how you define "game"
me - i'm a certain age in years but the spirit of rock and roll lives large in my heart - indeed it sustains my spirit like nothing else - what with true love often being a hard thing to find (now don't start me talking on that one!!) - so maybe that means i'm still young - others may say i'm a prime example of arrested development but to them i'd say "that's your loss"
rock and roll keeps me young in my heart and soul - i'd just be a boring spiritless old fart without it |
| August 23rd, 2004 07:47 AM |
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| Factory Girl |
Glencar, please ask your co-worker about the Libertines on Jimmy Kimmel. TIA! |
| August 23rd, 2004 12:19 PM |
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| glencar |
I will ask tonight, FG! |
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