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

[Bryan]

Yeah, David Byrne, and David Bowie have both aged pretty gracefully. Brian Eno, too. And as I said before, I think Bobby Dylan has done pretty well.

[Bernard]

On a personal level, it's Ben Folds all the way.  Ben Folds Five came along at JUST the right time for me in my adolescence, and I fervently decided that they were My Favorite Band.  Ben Folds' solo stuff, though, has - for me, anyway - turned into bad-to-mediocre adult contemporary music that just sounds, for lack of a better word, lazy.  There have been a few bright spots ("You Don't Know Me" was a pretty solid single) but overall it's been disappointing to watch the fall. 

Also, I'm not a fan of all the "collector's editions" and multiple pressings of CDs and vinyl.  When I start collecting an artist on vinyl, 9 time out of 10 I'll try to pick up everything they've released.  I mean, $99 for a "collectors edition" of the "Way To Normal" release?  That's absurd.

[dave from knoxville]

Sorry.  It was late, and I'd had a few drinks, and being called a "dunce" set me off a bit.

but I Went Too Far, and Now It's Me Who's In the Wrong!

At least in my mind, you are now officially awesome. Of course, that may work against you.

[Boogdish]

I think that stories about famous rockers who've changed their ways are good, but the real tragedies are the guys who haven't changed at all and are doomed to play the hits of their youth well into their golden years.

I just finished reading the autobiography of Johnny Barbata, who drummed for The Turtles, CSN&Y, Jefferson Airplane/Starship and some other bands.  I got the book from a coworker of mine whose band opened for him at a crappy sports bar a couple towns over and Barbata gave it to him as a gift.  I can't imagine that when he was laying down "So Happy Together" that he was thinking to himself "I sure hope that in 40 years I'll STILL be playing this song but with a cover band in the middle of nowhere."

[Gilly]

Dave Grohl

[not that clay]

Dear Hug and Nudie,

Check out the May 24th show here.  http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TI

You have my word, you'll find it thought-provoking.

Sting and Dylan are advanced artists we don't get. Yet.

Freds, do you think that guy was serious? I thought he was kidding at first, then I thought he was for real, and by the end I was pretty sure he was kidding.

[dave from knoxville]

Frankly, if you get to 65, and you're overly worried about whether what makes you happy squares with the warped sense of what constituted integrity when you were 25, you've got bigger problems than Dylan.

[Bryan]

Very well put, Dave.

[fonpr]

Dear Hug and Nudie,

Check out the May 24th show here.  http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TI

You have my word, you'll find it thought-provoking.

Sting and Dylan are advanced artists we don't get. Yet.

Freds, do you think that guy was serious? I thought he was kidding at first, then I thought he was for real, and by the end I was pretty sure he was kidding.

Kidding?   What am I gonna do with this mullet?

[amiright??]

Freds, do you think that guy was serious? I thought he was kidding at first, then I thought he was for real, and by the end I was pretty sure he was kidding.

That thing about appearing at the superbowl making you advanced... Seriously?

[Paul DePhiladelphia]

Is this thread about the original reaction a young artist might have to seeing an older version of themselves? If not, I think guys like Dylan and Elvis Costello might be able to take into consideration the effects of various influences/family/life changes that will surface over the years.
Of course I wish the My Aim is True Elvis Costello would have never changed. But it seems like he's loving what he is doing now.

[fonpr]

Freds, do you think that guy was serious? I thought he was kidding at first, then I thought he was for real, and by the end I was pretty sure he was kidding.

That thing about appearing at the superbowl making you advanced... Seriously?

Party in the front; business in the rear?

[amiright??]

Freds, do you think that guy was serious? I thought he was kidding at first, then I thought he was for real, and by the end I was pretty sure he was kidding.

That thing about appearing at the superbowl making you advanced... Seriously?

Party in the front; business in the rear?

Of course. That's why Lou Reed was advanced, apparently.

[NJL]

Freds, do you think that guy was serious? I thought he was kidding at first, then I thought he was for real, and by the end I was pretty sure he was kidding.

That thing about appearing at the superbowl making you advanced... Seriously?

Party in the front; business in the rear?

Isn't it the other way around?

[fonpr]

Party in the front; business in the rear?

Isn't it the other way around?
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Nuts.