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Is Rock and Roll Dead???

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SA-708 said:
To be fair to Bono, he did give consideration to breaking down the wall between performer and audience even in the largest venues. For example, he took a gamble in breaking the rules passed down to the artists at Live Aid, and managed to get someone from the audience up on stage to dance with him. When I saw U2 at the Hoosier Dome on All Saints Day during the Joshua Tree tour (following a Circle Jerks club show on Halloween), before the show they were looking for someone who could play G, C and F chords on the guitar, and then had the audience member they found join them onstage to play "People Get Ready." Not sure if U2 kept that up gestures like that once they started all the PopMart multimedia junk though.

But all things considered, I prefer a small venue. Today's dilemma is deciding which Nick Cave show I should beg for as a Christmas or birthday present: Saturday night 300 miles east at Ryman Auditorum, or Sunday night 60 miles south at The Orange Peel. Or both.
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There's a recent clip of them letting a blind guy up on stage to play "all I want is you" for a loved one. And then Bono let him keep his guitar. And...it all managed to look sincere, and I have no reason to doubt that it was. For all his overblown self importance, Bono seems like a decent person.
 
Theo Simon said:
But Punk was British. A raw sort of rock has always been around in the US.
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Blues must be British too then. Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, John Mayall. Never mind that it had always been around in the US.
 
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dumptruck said:
I presume sound of these Mummers (I had not heard them either) actually has a lot to do with actual mummers, yes? I don't know much about what that entails, but I am mostly reminded of easy listening, the sort done by Joe Harnell, for example.
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Huh? Not at all! Tale to Tell is their first and best album. Very creative stuff.
 
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JohnVF said:
Bono seems like a decent person.
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There's the rub. I own absolutely no U2, so you know where I stand, but...

Chris Blackwell (Island Records) called U2 the most decent people (or something like that) that he's ever worked with.

Can't say that about Brian Jones.
 
I picture the future and two frail, liver spotted, quaking old guys run into each other....."Hey Edge, it's me, Slash! Don't you remember? C'mon."

"Uh oh, Edge, did you **** your pants? Nurse!"
 
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Tom Brennan said:
I picture the future and two frail, liver spotted, quaking old guys run into each other....."Hey Edge, it's me, Slash! Don't you remember? C'mon."

"Uh oh, Edge, did you **** your pants? Nurse!"
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Sadly, I picture this scenario unfolding during a Super Bowl halftime show.
 
SA-708 said:
To be fair to Bono, he did give consideration to breaking down the wall between performer and audience even in the largest venues. For example, he took a gamble in breaking the rules passed down to the artists at Live Aid, and managed to get someone from the audience up on stage to dance with him. When I saw U2 at the Hoosier Dome on All Saints Day during the Joshua Tree tour (following a Circle Jerks club show on Halloween), before the show they were looking for someone who could play G, C and F chords on the guitar, and then had the audience member they found join them onstage to play "People Get Ready." Not sure if U2 kept that up gestures like that once they started all the PopMart multimedia junk though.

But all things considered, I prefer a small venue. Today's dilemma is deciding which Nick Cave show I should beg for as a Christmas or birthday present: Saturday night 300 miles east at Ryman Auditorum, or Sunday night 60 miles south at The Orange Peel. Or both.
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The interview was given just before or just after War was released. Until then, U2 had been playing small clubs and like all underground/alternative bands it is easy to make such statements when your own expectations do not allow for more.

Once you can fill up the Garden and then Shea Stadium, your whole perspective changes. As well it should. It is not as if the Who stubbornly remained a Marquee Club regular. Nor did the Beatles stick with the Cavern.

U2 was just responding to their explosive popularity. I mentioned it only because it was a humorous relic from their final days in the alternative sphere. I have my issues with U2, but I do not begrudge them their popularity.

None the less, it is pretty strange to think of them in that light now.:yes:
 
Jack Lord said:
The interview was given just before or just after War was released. Until then, U2 had been playing small clubs and like all underground/alternative bands it is easy to make such statements when your own expectations do not allow for more.

Once you can fill up the Garden and then Shea Stadium, your whole perspective changes. As well it should. It is not as if the Who stubbornly remained a Marquee Club regular. Nor did the Beatles stick with the Cavern.

U2 was just responding to their explosive popularity. I mentioned it only because it was a humorous relic from their final days in the alternative sphere. I have my issues with U2, but I do not begrudge them their popularity.

None the less, it is pretty strange to think of them in that light now.:yes:
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I never thought of U2 as a rock band
 
There was an old geezer playing some Chuck Berry in front of my house, I told him to get off my lawn!
 
KeninDC said:
... said the cat who loves a rousing Steeleye Span jig.

Are instrumental jigs played by stoned British hippies dead?
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LOL

I am at the library...and you won't believe this...there is a group of students singing holiday songs...and right now they are singing Gaudete!

In case anyone doesn't know, Steeleye Span recorded that song on Below the Salt.


I always preferred the first and second version of the spansters. Long-time fan of Mr. Martin Carthy.
 
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