March 14, 2006

The blonde in Blondie no longer blonde. And there's a whole bunch of infighting amongst the new inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as usual. Full marks to the Pistols for staying true to, well, to something, anyway.

And as much as this doesn't show Debbie in the best light, I'll always love her. Always.

posted by Capt. Renault 18 years ago
  • I'd like to see more bands turn down this corporate sponsored "honor." I mean, what could be more fukkin' rock n' roll than that? Of course, I also wish more people would turn down the Nobel Prize for Literature. OMFG JP SARTRE FUCK1N R00000LZ!!!!!!ONE111!!!
  • yeah when it was built I was of the opinion that a museum means "it" is dead. Glad it only took the Socks Pilfers and 20 years or whatever to confirm that. Beautiful building, nice exhibits, and creepy and wrong.
  • The museum is great. The inductees are (for the most part) highly questionable. Rock and Roll is not dead.
  • The NYTimes article shows the conversation between Debbie Harry and Frank Infante slightly differently.
  • So Metallica performed Sabbath songs? God, thinking about James singing ''Hole in teh Sky' just makes me want to cry. At least they could have tried to get Chris Cornell to do it, Soundgarden's version of that song is superb. (though Cornel's voice has also gone to shit... stupid mortality.)
  • Saw a bit of that show. It made me quite sad how all these people that rocked my world are now old and grey. Then New Order came onstage and after they played, shut the tv off. Then I saw myself on the mirror and felt worse.
  • The Sex Pistols are total hypocrites: hopping on the old-fogies-reunite-to-go-on-tour-and-sell-$75-tickets bandwagon (next month, a triple bill at the Sands Casino in beautiful Lake Tahoe, Styx, the Sex Pistols, and the Doobie Brothers!), then going all faux-punk and dissing the Hall. Blondie? Who cares. Terribly overrated band. Skynyrd's the gold standard of this year's bunch. The pre-plane crash Skynyrd, which was to the alt-country/No Depression movement what the MC5 was to punk. Skynyrd hasn't gotten the cred from the in-the-know kids that the band really deserves.
  • Ah, but the Pistols were still punk, because they called the reunion the "Filthy Lucre" tour, remember? So in saying that they're just doing it for the money, they're flipping the finger to those who are still sad enough to pay $75 to watch a bunch of middle-aged punks try to rock. See? Meta-capitalist. Punk as fuck.
  • Weren't the Pistols originally formed by McLaren as a vehicle to sell more "punk" clothing at his boutique? Capitalist from the get-go.
  • D'yever feel like you've been cheated?
  • Miles Davis inducted into rock and roll hall of fame. One question for Fillmore fans. Did Miles get in before Stevie Miller?
  • Blondie? Who cares. Terribly overrated band. And bereft of class, evidently. Even the Floyd reunited for Live8. You can't suck it up and play with your old bandmates for one performance?
  • Cornel's voice has gone to shit because he totally abused it in Soundgarden. He basically did everything you need to do to destroy your vocal chords.
  • Boy, though, he sure had one of the great rock voices ever for a few years there. Right up there on that Plant/Daltrey/Jagger level, just about.
  • Hear hear, MCT. Spoiled fuckers. Shut up 'n play.
  • Rolling Stone's different take on the spat. Also, Ozzy didn't play because his balls hurt. Also, better pic of non-blonde Debbie.
  • Hard rockers Van Halen were led by guitarist Eddie Van Halen, known for his blistering guitar solos, and had hits such as Jump and Dreams. Ack! Bad Ceeb! No Van Hagar! Bad Ceeb! *whap* The band, active in the 1980s and 1990s, was initially fronted by outrageous lead vocalist David Lee Roth, who left the band after feuding with Van Halen. Rocker Sammy Hagar, who took over as lead singer, Michael Anthony and Alex Van Halen will also be named in the induction ceremony. Unless they leave Alex at home, it should be a fussy John-Fogerty-esque sphincterfest.
  • That would be Van Halen, critics' darlings but never able to make the leap to popularity.
  • "...problem was that was the era when the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash were dominating the charts. Ramones dominating the charts? Qu'est-ce que fuck? One gold record -- and a best of, at that -- does not a domination make.
  • Dominating t-shirt sales, maybe, but not records.
  • Van Heflin.
  • Hey man, you'll get some leg to-nite For Shore!
  • Leonard to be inducted tonight, introduced by Lou Reed, and Madonna (a no-show, as I understand) to be performed by Iggy. Which is far more interesting than Madonna, anyway. What Madonna song wouldn't be improved by it being performed by Iggy? "Like a Virgin"? "Papa Don't Preach"? Friggin' "Vogue"? Srsly. Dood. Awesome. I heard that the ceremony will be webcast on Best Buy's website, but I'll be damned if I can find something to back that up. It's not on AOL/spinner like it was before, I know that much.
  • Here we are. Linky link.
  • Run D.M.C., Metallica vie for entry into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At least they're starting to address the lack of Iggy. But still no Rush. Or Abba*. Or Joy Division / New Order. Or Sonic Youth. And Wanda deserves to be in there. *There's no good reason why the Bee Gees and Madonna can be in there, but no Abba, whatever you think of their music.
  • Future Rock Hall only predicted four correct, with Wanda correctly named as a potential. Stevie was worthy of a first-year-eligible inductee.