philip storey
Who will replace these great names in the future ?
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philip storey
Lets not forget these stars who are getting on a bit. Noddy Holder 73-Gene Simmons 70- Ozzy Osbourne 71- Ian Gillian 74 - Ritchie Blackmore 75 - Ron Mael 74 - Billy Gibbons 70 - Dusty Hill 71 - Snowy White 72 - Ian Paice 71 - Roger Glover 74 - Andy Scott 70 - Steve Priest. I am afraid time catches up with us all in the end,nothing is more certain. Maybe Donald Trump will come up with a pill to keep you alive forever !
Groover7
Ian Hunter will soon be 81
philip storey
I suppose when you think of the rock'n'roll lifestyle,drink,drugs,late nights,flights all over the world it's a miracle that some manage to get into their late 70's even 80's.I think David Gahan has been brought back to life three times due to a mixture of drink and heroin in his system.Great front man though.
The Real Wizard
[QUOTE] [b]philip storey wrote:[/b]
Who will replace these great names in the future ?[/QUOTE]
Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Bjork, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye West for sure.
maybe Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, and the Fleet Foxes.
maybe fusion prodigies like Snarky Puppy and Jacob Collier.
maybe post-rock bands like Swan and Godspeed You Black Emperor.
Pretty well everything else from the last 20 years will be seen as irrelevant. Or it's invisible in a sea of millions of artists and wasn't marketed by the biz because the biz has scarcely been in the biz of marketing art for decades now.
Barely any rock here. It has been irrelevant in the grand scheme of things since OK Computer. Robert Plant stopped working with Jimmy Page the moment he saw Johnny Greenwood play with his pedals in lieu of a guitar solo. If there's a dominant genre right now, it's hip-hop. Maybe country. Hip-hop has done to rock what rock did to jazz in the 60s.
Also - Kate Bush needs to be mentioned in this sausage fest of a thread. She is in the top ten of any list of 20th century pop culture icons. Stevie Nicks too.
Who will replace these great names in the future ?[/QUOTE]
Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Bjork, Kendrick Lamar, and Kanye West for sure.
maybe Sigur Ros, Arcade Fire, and the Fleet Foxes.
maybe fusion prodigies like Snarky Puppy and Jacob Collier.
maybe post-rock bands like Swan and Godspeed You Black Emperor.
Pretty well everything else from the last 20 years will be seen as irrelevant. Or it's invisible in a sea of millions of artists and wasn't marketed by the biz because the biz has scarcely been in the biz of marketing art for decades now.
Barely any rock here. It has been irrelevant in the grand scheme of things since OK Computer. Robert Plant stopped working with Jimmy Page the moment he saw Johnny Greenwood play with his pedals in lieu of a guitar solo. If there's a dominant genre right now, it's hip-hop. Maybe country. Hip-hop has done to rock what rock did to jazz in the 60s.
Also - Kate Bush needs to be mentioned in this sausage fest of a thread. She is in the top ten of any list of 20th century pop culture icons. Stevie Nicks too.
YourValentine
We should not sing Brian's swan song yet. He has had stents implanted and he can live with that for decades if there are no other health issues. However, it will greatly affect his psyche and he has to rehabilitate on every level. I really hope he focusses on his full recovery now and finds pleasure and satisfaction in whatever projects he can undertake without overstraining his body and mind.
Holly2003
He should also never, ever view Queenzone as it might put an end to him.
The Real Wizard
[QUOTE] [b]YourValentine wrote:[/b]
We should not sing Brian's swan song yet. He has had stents implanted and he can live with that for decades if there are no other health issues. However, it will greatly affect his psyche and he has to rehabilitate on every level. I really hope he focusses on his full recovery now and finds pleasure and satisfaction in whatever projects he can undertake without overstraining his body and mind. [/QUOTE]
Please delete this thread:
http://www.queenzone.com/forums/422929/brians-curse.aspx
Holly is right - this is just not acceptable in 2020. The joke was not acceptable then, and it's even less acceptable now.
We should not sing Brian's swan song yet. He has had stents implanted and he can live with that for decades if there are no other health issues. However, it will greatly affect his psyche and he has to rehabilitate on every level. I really hope he focusses on his full recovery now and finds pleasure and satisfaction in whatever projects he can undertake without overstraining his body and mind. [/QUOTE]
Please delete this thread:
http://www.queenzone.com/forums/422929/brians-curse.aspx
Holly is right - this is just not acceptable in 2020. The joke was not acceptable then, and it's even less acceptable now.
Saint Jiub
Should the below George Carlin performance be deleted as well?
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/fifteen-years-after-911-we-can-hear-the-only-bit-george-carlin-ever-cut-for-taste/2016/09/07/40e0312c-745c-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html
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“Would you like me to tell you about something I really like?” he teased the crowd at the MGM Grand. “Fatal disasters. Fatal disasters with a lotta dead people.”
He called the 10-minute closer “Uncle Dave” and it came after Carlin had done an Osama bin Laden, airplane explosion joke earlier in the set. Ah, the difference a day makes. He named the bit not for a real uncle, but for a cosmic, doomsday scenario in which Earth collapses and disgruntled Uncle Daves everywhere are redeemed. Carlin loved the closer enough to make its key line — “I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die” — the title of his special.
...
"I spoke to Carlin only once, in 1999, and pressed him on a school shooting bit, which he did the night of the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo.
“How can you still do that joke?” I asked.
“Boy, you need that joke more than ever now,” he said. “The artificial weeping in this country, this nationwide mourning for dead people is just embarrassing, and these ribbons and these teddy bears and these little places where they put notes to dead people and all this s---. This is embarrassing and unnecessary, and it just shows how immature, how emotionally immature the American people as a class are.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG3yGdQYwqg
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I suppose Fatty's posts should be deleted as well?
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/fifteen-years-after-911-we-can-hear-the-only-bit-george-carlin-ever-cut-for-taste/2016/09/07/40e0312c-745c-11e6-8149-b8d05321db62_story.html
...
“Would you like me to tell you about something I really like?” he teased the crowd at the MGM Grand. “Fatal disasters. Fatal disasters with a lotta dead people.”
He called the 10-minute closer “Uncle Dave” and it came after Carlin had done an Osama bin Laden, airplane explosion joke earlier in the set. Ah, the difference a day makes. He named the bit not for a real uncle, but for a cosmic, doomsday scenario in which Earth collapses and disgruntled Uncle Daves everywhere are redeemed. Carlin loved the closer enough to make its key line — “I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die” — the title of his special.
...
"I spoke to Carlin only once, in 1999, and pressed him on a school shooting bit, which he did the night of the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo.
“How can you still do that joke?” I asked.
“Boy, you need that joke more than ever now,” he said. “The artificial weeping in this country, this nationwide mourning for dead people is just embarrassing, and these ribbons and these teddy bears and these little places where they put notes to dead people and all this s---. This is embarrassing and unnecessary, and it just shows how immature, how emotionally immature the American people as a class are.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG3yGdQYwqg
...
I suppose Fatty's posts should be deleted as well?
matt z
I never thought we'd see the day that a long timer would call for deleting a joke thread done in bad but humorous taste.
I think it's a good reprieve from the public grief we might share, though I've seen some things feel really awful about.
The truth is the anger and sadness about them is personal and it's kind of strange since we may not know many of these peopleon any personal level.
I didn't update when Prince died, and Cornell. ...and both those are mired in suspicion and or potential suicide.
Doesn't mean that the absurdity of the thread was ever malicious.
Has anyone updated for Little Richard?
Bri & Jerry Lee Lewis shared the stage live --> next time JLL & Little Richard met.
It could have also traveled by association through to the band KISS who has shared recent enough photos backstage with him
Myself, I regard Little Richard as THE most transcendent live performer I've been witness to. And as much reverence i have for seeing the man live in 2nd row center seating when he was 72 , he was still beyond even A RJD or dare i say Prince.... even blew away Sam Moore who was on the same Bill.
The man was tremendous. The energy and spirit he created or invoked in that house was something else. Dare I say Little Richard was an alien! ;)
But that said. ...I would still *get it* IF he popped up in the Brian's Curse thread.
We should all be so lucky
I think it's a good reprieve from the public grief we might share, though I've seen some things feel really awful about.
The truth is the anger and sadness about them is personal and it's kind of strange since we may not know many of these peopleon any personal level.
I didn't update when Prince died, and Cornell. ...and both those are mired in suspicion and or potential suicide.
Doesn't mean that the absurdity of the thread was ever malicious.
Has anyone updated for Little Richard?
Bri & Jerry Lee Lewis shared the stage live --> next time JLL & Little Richard met.
It could have also traveled by association through to the band KISS who has shared recent enough photos backstage with him
Myself, I regard Little Richard as THE most transcendent live performer I've been witness to. And as much reverence i have for seeing the man live in 2nd row center seating when he was 72 , he was still beyond even A RJD or dare i say Prince.... even blew away Sam Moore who was on the same Bill.
The man was tremendous. The energy and spirit he created or invoked in that house was something else. Dare I say Little Richard was an alien! ;)
But that said. ...I would still *get it* IF he popped up in the Brian's Curse thread.
We should all be so lucky
YourValentine
I wonder if anyone here remembers the discussion forum on the former website of the official Queen fan club. It closed because some people posted jokes about Freddie Mercury. One of them I randomly remember went like: "what is pink and covered in dust? Freddie Mercury's slippers", so obviously the jokes were in great taste and style :-). Unfortunately, a shit storm, which was not yet called a shit storm in 1998/99, broke loose and in the end Jacky closed the forum. The fun-loving minority of that forum moved over to the small, regional Queenzone forum while the good, offended majority moved to a place called "Queen Forever, which has long been forgotten. Queenzone, on the other hand, grew from there into an international forum and has now existed for almost a quarter of a century.
No, we won't delete that thread, sorry. It's funny.
No, we won't delete that thread, sorry. It's funny.
Saint Jiub
Thanks YV
thomasquinn 32989
Sorry Bob, but on this count, you're just wrong.
YV's tasteless example of self-congratulatory smugness after willfully neglecting to do her fucking duty by actually moderating the spammers and trolls leading to a nigh-on complete abandonment of QZ by *ALMOST EVERYONE*, while disgusting and ridiculous in equal measure, does not change that. The Brian's curse thread is harmless humor, even if it is black humor.
@YV: have you no self-respect? None at all? Are you not able to see how you are responsible for the REAL clusterfuck that you allowed to happen here on QZ in the past year or so? And do you not feel the least bit of shame thumping your chest and proclaiming what a great job you've done?
YV's tasteless example of self-congratulatory smugness after willfully neglecting to do her fucking duty by actually moderating the spammers and trolls leading to a nigh-on complete abandonment of QZ by *ALMOST EVERYONE*, while disgusting and ridiculous in equal measure, does not change that. The Brian's curse thread is harmless humor, even if it is black humor.
@YV: have you no self-respect? None at all? Are you not able to see how you are responsible for the REAL clusterfuck that you allowed to happen here on QZ in the past year or so? And do you not feel the least bit of shame thumping your chest and proclaiming what a great job you've done?
Saint Jiub
I don't see the smugness or chest thumping, but the self-taught smugness expert has spoken ...