Comments on: Wednesday Potpourri

By: b

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:21:37 +0000

I was saving my ass, your cool. Lets fight the MoCo beer barons who block our access to good brew, at good prices, and convenient locations, like everywhere. MoCo seems more tollerent of drug dealers than beer outlets.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:32:00 +0000

Sorry dude. When you said Patty Page, I just had to wonder! And don’t worry – I won’t say anything to Keith.

But I know what you mean. I saw Plant|Page in ’94, and even though they could have, they didn’t call themselves Led Zeppelin. I guess when you’re that cool, you don’t need to.

By: b

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:24:42 +0000

Robert Johnson is totally cool,Ella sings Cole Porter, one of my favorite recordings, but I’m not a museum piece! That was all pre-me. My parents wouldn’t let me buy Elvis (too Negro). Patti Page,”I’m Walkin”, for better or worse, was my first 45. I’m not knocking nostalgia acts, I just ask that they aren’t a rip-off with one or two oridignal members. I saw the Stones and the only members dead were Brian Jones & Keith Richards,(and that’s why they are so cool, because Keith doesn’t know it yet.)

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:15:19 +0000

As for the answer to your question: nostalgia, mixed with a little “retro is cool” attitude might be the reason. Or maybe (more likely) a lot of the music coming out today is such crap that we all yearn for something better. It’s good music – let ‘em listen.

And while I’m young, I’m not *that* young. Patty Page? Come on! At least you could have said Cole Porter or Elvis or something a little more trendy. Mills Brothers? Robert Johnson? Help a brother out, here!

Bottom line is that whatever they build, they’re going to create something that generates revenue (i.e., not totally crap). And it’s a lot better than an empty JCPenny building.

By: b

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:28:44 +0000

I’m all for a music venue, but I think anything more progressive than The Birchmere would be political suicide(we can only hope), and I think that The Birchmere knew this and played hardball, against a group of bush league NIMBY tools & fools.
Skynard, I say no. I saw Pink Floyd 4 years before Dark Side of the Moon, Grand Funk when they were a local Michigan band, Bob Seger playing free to promote his 1st single,Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man, but Skynard is dead.RE: Warren Zevon,(sweet home Alabama, play that dead bands song…), along with that Morrison-less band calling itself The Doors. Next you’ll have Ringo getting togeather with his buddies at AA and re-forming the Beatles. I have been a Who fan since ’68, and I love and respect Pete & Rodger, but I won’t pay to see the Who unless they bring back Keith Moon (not to slight The Ox). Rock was suppose to be about the music. The miracle of recording preserves it, but calling yourself, L Skynard long after half of it’s founding members have died is like saying Mc Donalds makes the best burgers, Bud is the king of beer, and I promice not to…

Sorry to be so long winded, I wanna rock, (and the members of Veruca Salt are all breathing. “American Thighs” is a classic). I live in DTSS and say, if you don’t want noise, don’t live downtown. Downtown denotes a buisness district, which lives off commerce, which means people, which have mouths, and if they’re anything like mine, they are never shut.

Rock On

ps: Eric, why is it that the majority of people who want to see these old bands weren’t alive or old enough for the real thing? I probably know more about bands of “your time” than you, and I started with Patti Page.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:26:50 +0000

It’s a person who doesn’t care about books or interesting films or things.

By: Bonifant more sinister than Thayer

Bonifant more sinister than Thayer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:59:26 +0000

Re: Music whiners = Veruca Salt

“Libertine women and Scarlet women and RAG-TIME! Shameless music that will grab your son, YOUR daughter in the arms of a jungle animal instinct. Mass hysteria!”

buncha musical xenophobic philistines

(Dad??? What’s a philistine??)