RE: that is rock & roll

["Adams, Lael Harmon" <adamslh7972@xxxxxxx>]

Except Jimmy said STOP during Out On the Tiles....Still, rock 'n roll could 
be Robert saying "Where's that confounded bridge?" in The Crunge. =)
-Lael

-----Original Message-----
From: "Tim Druck" <drucktim5538@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Dan Wonsowski'" <littledan2000@xxxxxxxxx>, <zeppelin@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:12:37 -0400
Subject: RE: that is rock & roll

> Dan,
>    While my heart agrees with you, my experiences are a little
> different - for me, real rock 'n roll is exactly what you talked about
> (with a little groupie action thrown in for good measure), but rock 'n
> roll is a staged performance, no doubt.  It's the bands that happen to
> pull off those magical moments even during contrived events that we
> remember and revere - hence Robert And The Dove - a magical moment that
> made something contrived and hypocritical into something special and
> memorable for every one of us.
>    Rock 'n roll for me is the airplane in Black Country Woman, or
> Jimmy saying STOP during The Crunge, or the telephone on JPJ's keys at
> Knebworth.  It's Jeff Beck throwing amps off the stage, Ozzy biting the
> head off a dove at his contract-signing meeting, and every
> perfectly-placed hair on Rod Stewart's head.  Rock 'n roll is every
> perfectly staged show, or every time a singer leans over to a guitarist
> during a jam and says "Hey man, do you know Steamroller?"  I just wish
> it were all that way.
> 
> TimD
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-zeppelin@xxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> Of Dan Wonsowski
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:13 AM
> To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: that is rock & roll
> 
> 
> TimD says:
> Actually, you'd be really surprised how rock 'n' 
> roll that
> really is.  And how much of what we think of as 
> rock 'n' roll is really
> staged for effect, or is an illusion designed to 
> make you think you saw
> something you didn't, or heard something that 
> wasn't really played.  
> 
> Dan says:
> I see what you're saying, but if it's that staged
> and planned out, it's not so rock & roll to me.
> 
> What epitomizes rock & roll for me?  That picture
> of Johnny Cash giving the camera the finger at
> San Quentin (or Folsom, I forget).  Rock & roll
> is that little whoop Elvis gives at the end of
> Mystery Train, or Ringo yelling "I got blisters
> on me fingers!", or Zeppelin throwing Shaft into
> D&C.  Rock & roll is the Ramones, about as un
> self conscious as you can get, playing catchy
> songs with limited skills and looks making music
> for themselves that no one was making for them. 
> not saying other things aren't shades of rock,
> but I don't think that picture of Plant and the
> pigeon is rock & roll.  Good photo journalism
> maybe?  
> Little Dan
> 
> "writing radical changes as our epitaphs"
> 
> 
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