so last night Keith is telling me about some band, something you young folks listen to i imagine. forget the name. Vines (i really did forget. because i'm old.) anyway, there is apparently all manner of new stuff out there, and where have i been? stranded in the wilds of ventura county, i whine. he says, don't you listen to kjee? you could get kjee! what have you been listening to?
and i admit rather sheepishly, um, classic rock. take this morning for instance. way to work, madman across the water. ahhhhhhhh. that's a long song, it gets me almost all the way to work, and then they play knockin' on heaven's door. i had that on the 45 fer cryin' out loud. 'lord put my guns in the ground, i can't shoot them anymore', i'm singing along as i park the car. i get out feeling oh, so old.
Keith, i'm totally gonna program that station into my buttons.
Two words: Barra-CUDA!
Speaking of ironic coincidences if such a thing exists, I talked with one of the guys from KJEE today. They're anxiously awaiting your listenership. And your cat. They want to floss your cat.
unfortunately their signal is hopelessly weak, and the fuzz is a very deep annoying sound. i suppose on the north end of ventura, it might come in ok.
we get neither KROQ (from the south) nor KJEE (from the north).
it's ok. i'm old. i can deal with listening to the music of my misspent youth.
they want to floss my cat?
Re: Knockin on Heavens Door:
Was that by Dylan??
And if so, didn't he write that when he was just 40ish? And felt his world was coming to an end?
Great Dylan Album: "Nashville Skyline".
Lay, Lady Lay, Johnnie Cash, Hot Album...
Now ya got me waxin' nostalgia over here.....
yes, bob dylan, early seventies, was it the sountrack to a movie? or did that happen more recently? anyway, yeah, kind of a downbeat tune, and i can so remember having it on the 45 and my room as a kid and ... oy.
I thought we were talking about the Vines last night (well, kinda, through my comments). Anyway, you aren't old. I think that we're close to the same age, and I'm not old. You just like the music you grew up with. The Vines are really just recycling early The Who/Rolling Stones/Clash type material, which looks new to kids that weren't alive back in the 60's and 70's.
maybe that's where i got that band name. maybe he was talking about the strokes or something. i don't really remember the specifics, just that he rattled off about 5 bands i'd never heard of, or only through the internet, vaguely.
and i realized it's cause i'm stuck in the 70's. not that that's a bad decade or anything.
The Vines, Hives, Strokes, White Stripes, all classic rock revved up and remarketed to kids. Not to say they are bad, The Strokes (kind of a recycled Velvet Underground playing dancy songs) make me jump around the room in my underwear, and the White Stripes can just about cop a nice Led Zep Black Dog buzz. It's just everything coming around again. Better than Britney or N'Stink, I say.
I love classic rock. There is no shame!
oh, i would never stop loving it. i just need to get a little updated i think, because classic rock is *different* when you clearly remember when these songs first came out. which was years before you were born, melly. and i was already ... old enough to get to the record store on my own and buy music my parents hated. so that makes me old enough to be your mother, young lady.
Mmm. Classic Rock.
Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Donovan, Dylan...God it’s like I stepped back to the 70s and listening to my parents’ records all over again. God help me I love it.