BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?

Subject: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: hilda fish
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:32 AM

I dunno ........ what can anyone say about an AgingRS? Are they so aging? What does that mean anyway? Personally, I say a lot about them at various times but what do people think? I know some people have married them. What is that about? And yes, I am being deliberately cryptic. Responses?

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 07:03 AM

Find me a rock star, or anyone else, who isn't aging, and I'll give you a Philosopher's Stone.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: GUEST,AgingRS
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 07:03 AM

2 things about aging rock stars:
1. They're wilfull
2. They're simple people.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: *daylia*
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 08:13 AM

They're probably a lot richer than aging folk stars?

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 09:08 AM

Which is why someone will always line up to marry them.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: freda underhill
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 09:15 AM

the big personality.. then: up there on the stage, adulation, screaming fans, life on a tap. Now: corns,liver disease & queuing with the masses for groceries.

who can blame an ageing egomaniac for getting a little tetchy sometimes?

their life is vivid, potent, intense. how drab does age seem? the background fades with their greying hair..

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:01 PM

Aging as opposed to Dead Rock Star = scores more points in the marriage stakes.
Star as opposed to Penniless E-Rock Star = Similar reason.

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:03 PM

sorry typing error

Ex-Rock Star.

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: number 6
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 12:08 PM

"Well I'm drivin' in the flats in a Cadillac car
The girls all say, "You're a worn out star"
My pockets are loaded and I'm spending every dime
How can you say you love someone else when you know it's me all the time?"

Bob Dylan ... exerpt from Summer Days


sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 01:24 PM

I'd say it's a heavy burden to carry, and with diminishing returns. But then, you could say that about most physical lives, right?

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:07 PM

Even very old stars are probably still too hot for rocks to form. The elements may be there, but they don't form compounds at stellar temperatures. And if a star does cool down enough for rocks to form, it's not really a star anymore, is it? It's just a rock.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: hilda fish
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 05:20 PM

What can I say Bee-dubya-ell? Certainly not 'in a nutshell' - oh, in the first part of your message I could, "Even very old stars are probably still too hot for rocks to form." But then, can 'aging' 'rock' and 'star' be separated without a changing intent? And what about 'baby boomers'? Are they the same category or a sub-category?

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: number 6
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:09 PM

I dislike categories ... all I can say is that as I get older all the baggage starts to fall by the wayside ... in aging for me (and my wife) we find that life has much greater returns than we expected ... life is rich and full ... life is good.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Paul from Hull
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:11 PM

"Hope I die before I get old..."

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:20 PM

And what about 'baby boomers'?

You have a point there, hilda fish. The baby boom was finished fifty years ago. Why are we still called "boomers"? We are no longer booming. We boomed a long time ago. We are, in fact, the residue of the baby boom in the same way that universal background radiation is the residue of the big bang. We should be called "baby boomeds".

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: number 6
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 06:41 PM

I Still thing the "boomers" are boomin' ... they still have (undeniably) a hold on the economy ... they control a large majority of the market investments ... they aint gonna let go of that golden orb .. yet.

BTW ... off topic here (slightly) but what ever happened to generation X ?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 08:01 PM

To Age a Rock Star:

Take one Rock Star
Fail to sell records for a few years
Immerse thoroughly in booze

...

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: GUEST
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 08:30 PM

Their wallets

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: GUEST,AgingRS
Date: 01 Aug 06 - 11:08 PM

Aging Teen Queens!

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 02 Aug 06 - 07:08 AM

The Gropies, er Groupies...

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 05:19 AM

As for Generation X - didn't Billy Idol turn into an ageing rock star?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Severn
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 10:35 AM

I will actually see the process in action tonight, as I will be going to see Van Morrison in concert (for the first time). He seems to want to age by exploring every type of music that ever appealed to him before he goes, which can be as good a thing as you either choose to, or are actually able to, make of it. His current album is country oriented, singing "There Stands The Glass" and such. We'll see how or if he ties up all the other threads (R&B, Celtic, Jazz, Skiffle et. al.) with it all. At least he's not trying to go out as an oldies act, but then his muse, unique brand of spirituality, temprement and ego have always taken him in odd directions.

And he IS the only artist I know of to have personally produced the multi-artist tribute album devoted to his own songs...

But I have folloewd his recording career through thick and thin, for the rewards the thick provide.


Should prove interesting.

Details at some later point.....

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Grab
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 05:10 PM

If even John Prescott can go on the pull, never mind some musician, it just goes to show how much attraction power and money have.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 06 Aug 06 - 06:56 PM

Is that Power and somebody else's money?
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 12:01 AM

"Power" is the leverage exerted on other people's money.

THE AUTHOR

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: DannyC
Date: 07 Aug 06 - 11:40 PM

An ex-roomie of mine wrote extensively on this topic:

http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2001/08/22/rock/index.html

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:17 AM

Find me a rock star, or anyone else, who isn't aging, and I'll give you a Philosopher's Stone

Jimi Hendrix
Janis Joplin
Kurt Cobain

I claim my prize!

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: Grab
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:30 AM

Danny, I'd disagree with your ex-roomie. Sure, some of them have stopped rocking and become parodies - Aerosmith for one. But some of them still do it, and do it well. Status Quo have been an unfashionable joke for practically their entire performing career, but that doesn't alter the fact that they rocked like good'uns, and they can *still* do it. There's a band called the Hamsters in the UK who play blues-rock - they're all over 40 IIRC and they've *never* had radio play or any chart stuff, but they tour constantly to packed-out houses because they're *good*. And Mark Knopfler this year was frankly amazing, even if he did have a tea break in the middle. :-)

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: GUEST,AgingRS
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 09:59 PM

Ah Hilda

You've got em going. Personally I like fish.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: hilda fish
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 05:09 PM

Fish! Fish!!!!!!! And doesn't everyone have a teabreak these days? Mark Knopfler was indeed amazing as are many. It's the aging rock star thing - gotta die before you're thirty stuff. There's no such thing as an 'aging' folkie, classical, whatever. Is it the ultimate commitment to life this aging rock star thing - holding onto eternal youth - peter pan syndrome (whatever THAT is)? I've heard so many tirades again Mick Jagger (oh yes, I can understand) but....... he's just doing what he does. Does Mark Ferrie fit the criteria? Paul McCartney? It's that he's 'aging' and 'rock' that does it. Here I am starting to go on and on ......... what belongs to the young and what belongs to the 'aging' - I would say 'old' but given our culture, it's such a harsh word in its way - oh, and the other thing, why are they always male. I was just thrown Deb Harry and Chrissie Hyndes but they simply don't fit - well I don't think so anyway. There you go - another question - is it a male thing? Personally I find aging rock stars adorable but they do seem to .......... well they do seem to.

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 01:26 AM

Fish?

OK, I'll swap Mr Baker for Mrs Jones...

Subject: RE: BS: What is it about Aging Rock Stars?
From: DannyC
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:40 AM

Graham,

You and I are likely in accord.   I never agreed with a word the man wrote, but he did pay his share of rent and utilities in a timely fashion.

However, I would have liked to have witnessed Strausbaugh bouncing himself out of the Rock Hall of Fame - we surely missed a great stir - I'm certain he'd have done The Baptist proud...

(*tisk tisk* - wonder if he took a swing at any of 'em?)