Watts All Wet Over Dirty Words
The curmudgeons and scolds are braying at WUWT over this Australian rap video. How crude! How offensive! How naughty! How…unsurprising.
Once upon a time, lots of people got all riled up over this guy and his swiveling hips. Imagine.
These were bad boys, too (and one of my favorite all time bands).
Anyway, for Anthony or anyone at WUWT who wants to push back on your inner curmudgeon, I give you this George Carlin classic.
What, is this beat up on Anthony week? Ah, well–hey Anthony, if you read this, remember that K.K. wouldn’t be doing this if you didn’t matter. Or maybe he wouldn’t be doing this if you hadn’t reclassified Collide a Scape as similar to Real Climate….
You haven’t seen rap until you’ve seen Italian rappers, anyhow. (Goin’ home to momma’s gonna eat me some real pasta…)
WUWT is always my first stop for pop music criticism.
The Who came to fame or should that be notoriety one night at a local pub in ’64:
http://www.cyrildavies.com/Railway.html it seems Townshend smashed up one of these:
http://www.rickbeat.com/modelslibrary/1998rm/1998rm.htm
a Rickenbacker model 1998 making for a sad end to a fine guitar. I don’t know if I should laugh or cry, I still have my ’64 1998 and I guess it is a collector’s piece for all the wrong reasons.
I recall that they were billed at the Railway Hotel for some time before they happened upon that particular path to fame and fortune. I never went (too young, far far too young) and they weren’t my kind of thing. That year I did see The Yardbirds and a young Elkie Brooks, and I don’t think I would want to swap.
Entwistle’s solo on My Generation was a revelation and they went on to become famous for being dangerously loud (including playing at a publicity event with their full sound system in a very confined space) and wildly out of tune and time, these three things are probably related. The latter points were very common traits in UK pop and rock bands and encouraged a lot of aspiring musicians to believe that they too could be famous. The first time I ever heard a white band play really well on stage was a Zappa performance years later.
The Who had to be given a lot of credit for their staying power, during a period when pop music was turning over styles about every couple of years, they kept together, kept going, and kept moving on. yet staying the same. It was also a time of tragedy, drugs, bad drugs, madness and death. I remember word coming through from Alexis Korner that Brian Jones was in a very bad way and needed help that he was not getting from his friends, there was some vague talk of getting him to come stay out in the country for a while but it never happened and he was dead. It was a bit of a wake up call. Then the sixties (if you remember them you survived) were over but the casualties were still coming in for years to come.
Much later, Keith Moon died and I remember being at Watford Gap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watford_Gap_services#In_popular_culture
with a bunch of other itinerents and listing all the industry people we knew (most of these would not be famous) or had seen, that were gone, or basket cases, or failing badly sick (this was almost certainly AIDS but pre-dates that name by several years).
“I hope I die before I get old” did get a mention. I guess we were mostly a bunch of twenty somethings and old had meant thirty.
The Who came through the excesses that permitted ELP hmm, and YES, how did so much talent conspire to make a nasty thin noise (the original multitracks were quite ballsy). When Punk went through the industry like a dose of iconoclastic laxatives (not so much one chord wonders as one take wonders which was good for cash flow, and they made the same noise on stage not that it mattered much), The Who were still able to cut their stuff.
They were a great rock and roll band, certainly much more than the some of their parts. For sure they were not my thing, of the mods I would have picked Small Faces but they didn’t hang in there.
Alex Harvey (not the famously sensational one, he died)
” Or maybe he wouldn’t be doing this if you hadn’t reclassified Collide a Scape as similar to Real Climate”¦.”
Wow, is that ever a misconception. Say it ain’t so, Keith!
Puhleeze. The reason why Watts switched me from his “lukewarmer” category to “pro-agw” views is because I was needling him. I was saying he was the flipside to Romm before he reclassified me.
Like Romm, Anthony is also very sensitive to criticism.
I was just teasin’.
Collide-a-Scape similar to RC? That’s what Watts thinks (I use the term loosely)?
I guess they are if you wear blinders that place a big red blinking X over any site that accepts what most scientist do, i.e., the reality of AGW. Otherwise, not.
Is it common knowledge what the origin of the word “Jazz” is. The music was commonly played in brothels and took its name from what went on there.