Post #141036 by donhonyc on Sun, Feb 13, 2005 10:33 PM

On 2005-02-13 22:09, Shipwreckjoey wrote:
The Janis Joplin tribute was worth the price of admission.

In a good way, a bad way, or (hafta add this) ironic way? That was the only part of the show that I caught. I went to a bodega on Ave. A to pick up a couple beers and they had the show on TV, and lo and behold there was Joss Stone introducing 'Mrs Clean'...I mean Melissa Etheridge and her bald head singing 'Piece of My Heart'. Hmmm... almost sounds good in writing, but ridiculous to see. Are bald women still shocking? I guess in front of the 'fraudience' (luv that Tiki Bot...a new term has been coined for the 21st Century) it is. And as far as Joss Stone...how many more fuckin white people do I have to hear with that fake soul voice? Yeah...she has volume...so what! Tired of that. The last person who even passed with that fake soul thing was Mariah Carey. I'm not a fan, but I'll buy that she has a real voice. White people with fake soul voices must die!

I almost wish that I saw Green Day. Not a big fan of theirs either, but if there was ever a band that was barely, barely carrying the punk torch, they're it. I did hear a smidge of the 'American Idiot' album. The title alone says that they are at least thinking aboiut current events, and I heard one song that had some lyric like 'I'm not gonna follow the redneck agenda'. Okay....at least these guys have something to say. Who the hell does that in rock music anymore? Oh yeah...NOBODY..there are no rock bands left. And Maroon 5? Oh-my-god. If I can just invoke the spirit of John Belushi....."Neidermeyer...DEAD! Marmalarde DEAD! Maroon 5....DEAD!!!"

As David Crosby once said to Bob Dylan at a similar gathering "Buncha dicks on auto-stroke!" Got that right.

ROCK IS DEAD! LONG LIVE ROCK!!!!

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2005-02-13 22:46 ]