tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post1878632329513079659..comments2024-03-14T01:22:21.483-04:00Comments on Basil's Blog: It's only Rock N Roll...Basilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00304218067534993876noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-39043882263090679002013-12-23T06:54:05.000-05:002013-12-23T06:54:05.000-05:00Too many cookies. ;-)Too many cookies. ;-)Jimmynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-34752788794913930052013-12-23T06:27:39.000-05:002013-12-23T06:27:39.000-05:00Basil was a DJ?MP3 post or it never happened!Which...Basil was a DJ?<br><br>MP3 post or it never happened!<br><br>Which raises the question: why doesn't IMAO do more with audio? Huh?Jimmynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-36084754423484612492013-12-23T06:51:16.000-05:002013-12-23T06:51:16.000-05:00@7 - Because audio takes 5 times as long to impart...@7 - Because audio takes 5 times as long to impart the same information as a transcript of that audio.<br><br>And I'm lazy...Harveynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-34210567393752572122013-12-23T04:15:24.000-05:002013-12-23T04:15:24.000-05:00I’ll worry about more important things now.That sh...<i>I’ll worry about more important things now.</i><br><br>That shouldn't be difficult. I can't think of anything less important than the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame.Iowa Jimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-85222667701537081972013-12-23T04:49:14.000-05:002013-12-23T04:49:14.000-05:00Now I wonder if his 4th Symphony makes Philip Glas...Now I wonder if his 4th Symphony makes Philip Glass eligible...Capitalist_Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-38217736644218053092013-12-23T05:05:23.000-05:002013-12-23T05:05:23.000-05:00Peter Gabriel is totally justified. He's done...Peter Gabriel is totally justified. He's done a lot of creative, experimental things in music (such as "Rhythm of the Heat", which is an awesome thing to crank if you're driving), and he's had some huge hits such as Sledge Hammer. <br><br>But Moon Shadow and Linda Ronstatd? Rock and Roll? Hardly deserving. Weird Al Yankovic has done more to advance rock. (I'm not even being sarcastic. He has.)Michael Hutchisonhttp://www.thehutch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-50161099899951626772013-12-23T05:53:08.000-05:002013-12-23T05:53:08.000-05:00It's about what's popular - not what's...It's about what's popular - not what's good or what's rock & roll.DamnCatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-66063024995653954042013-12-23T05:53:48.000-05:002013-12-23T05:53:48.000-05:00I guess that "...but it's still rock-n-ro...I guess that "...but it's still rock-n-roll to me" applies to just about anything.Conservatariannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-33298121490831605442013-12-23T06:22:54.000-05:002013-12-23T06:22:54.000-05:00i'm confused on one thing. are you against Ron...i'm confused on one thing. are you against Rondstadt, or just against the use of the Mexican album for induction? i've got hours of her albums, swing by some time for a listen if you think she doesn't belong. :)<br><br><i>[It's that if she, Joe Moslem, and Peter Gabriel hadn't done all the non-rock stuff, they'd never have been inducted based on their music. - B.]</i>jwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-89393204075931668722013-12-23T07:48:32.000-05:002013-12-23T07:48:32.000-05:00A few years ago I visited the Rock and Roll Hall o...A few years ago I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I was turned off by a lot of the quotes and video clips of the "rock stars" proclaiming how they were changing the world through their music. Most of them were people I don't even remember, and I grew up in the 60's. <br><br>Since then I really don't give a sh*t about who they induct. As far as I am concerned, they are all a bunch of pretentious self-absorbed assholes.Joelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-65489809765034708312013-12-23T10:03:35.000-05:002013-12-23T10:03:35.000-05:00basil, i'm not sure what "non-rock" ...basil, i'm not sure what "non-rock" stuff you mean for Ronstadt, unless you figure her for country. i guess we just have to disagree on that one. here are three reasons i disagree, all from Different Drum. lots of excellent singers don't write there own stuff, btw.<br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haZPPBJC8Ic<br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDpKaL3PPSA<br><br>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL6G17KFC_kjwnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-36097158206925253162013-12-23T12:01:51.000-05:002013-12-23T12:01:51.000-05:0010. Joel says: ... As far as I am concerned, they ...10. Joel says: ... As far as I am concerned, they are all a bunch of pretentious self-absorbed assholes.<br><br>Oh, he got all of that one! He's gotta be pleased with that! The crowd is just on its feet here.c64woodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-9284035999690302122013-12-23T13:43:37.000-05:002013-12-23T13:43:37.000-05:00The self-absorbed pretentious assholes" state...The self-absorbed pretentious assholes" statement sums up about 94.7% of "celebrities", whether they be musicians, actors, athletes or whatever. Can't let that stop you from enjoying the exhibits at the RnR Hof, Cooperstown, etc etc.frogmouthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-43787793024552358412013-12-23T15:54:18.000-05:002013-12-23T15:54:18.000-05:00Sixties music was some of the best ever produced, ...Sixties music was some of the best ever produced, all across the board. It was primed by the fifties rock-n-roll. The seventies music went down hill fast and the eighties music shouldn't even be called music. There were exceptions in those decades but for quality and quantity the sixties stand above and apart and truly were golden.Dougnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-14925600045520781662013-12-23T17:58:11.000-05:002013-12-23T17:58:11.000-05:00Spent Friday in the car which has SiriusXM and fou...Spent Friday in the car which has SiriusXM and found Classic Vinyl wasn't the station I had come to appreciate the past 5 years. Not to let a crisis go to waste I tuned through all my channels and ended up staying on one playing Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty for the next 4 hours. Thats how bad the "rock" station had become. Forced me to the Long Hair Heavy Metal Station playing Sleeping Beauty ballet.GrumpyCatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052406779197845814.post-46970785458262577692013-12-23T21:02:18.000-05:002013-12-23T21:02:18.000-05:00I used to listen to "Morning Has Broken"...I used to listen to "Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens in the car every morning on my way to football practice in the fall back in high school.<br>If the road was deserted I'd sway back and forth between the lanes in time to the music as I drove.<br>Years later, I learned that "Morning Has Broken" was an old Welsh hymn that Stevens just used and wasn't his original composition at all.<br>So now I hate him.4of7http://artofdonscholand.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com