Topic for the show: What Have I Become, Rock Edition

[dave from knoxville]

Party in the front; business in the rear?

Isn't it the other way around?

Nuts.
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Fashion trailblazer!

[fonpr]

Party in the front; business in the rear?

Isn't it the other way around?

Nuts.

Fashion trailblazer!
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[cavorting with nudists]

He may be fine with it himself for all I know, but WTF has this bozo become? (The rock star I mean, not the groom)

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391620,00.html

[waltkellysghost]

I think if Chuck D of the past met Flava Flav of the present, he would punch the hell out of him.

[JonFromMaplewood]

He may be fine with it himself for all I know, but WTF has this bozo become? (The rock star I mean, not the groom)

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391620,00.html

Ergo my recommendation last week of Elton John...

Elton John.

But then again, this leads to another question.  Does the opinion of the younger you really matter if the younger you was living in a blur of chemical dependency?  Like so many others, Elton John did his best work when he was in horrible shape. 

That being said, there is no excuse - not a single one - for playing Rush Limbaugh's fifth wedding.

[cavorting with nudists]

I guess if he were to donate his full million-dollar paycheck, in Limbaugh's name, to some pro-gay-marriage group there would be some justice in that.  But still, a revoltin' business.

[nec13]

RE: this topic, Rod Stewart is the first name that came to mind for me. His work with Jeff Beck was great. The albums he recorded with Faces are some of the best rock records of all time. And his first three solo albums are amongst the very best albums of the 1970's, or any era for that matter. However, his work, post-1977, has varied from middling to downright awful.

I think Greil Marcus hit the nail on the head when he said of Stewart, "Never has there been a more naturally-gifted rock singer than Rod Stewart and never has a singer betrayed his gift more completely."