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Who should hang up their rock 'n' roll boots? (Read 2,021 times)
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Re: Who should hang up their rock 'n' roll boots?
Reply #25 - Nov 16th, 2009 at 11:09am
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Bingo wrote on Nov 15th, 2009 at 3:26pm:
gimmekeef wrote on Nov 14th, 2009 at 11:06am:
This guy is writing for the Grand Rapids Press..wow big gig buddy....


In order to be successful in life, does one have to work for a NYT or Washington Post? To be condescending for where he works makes no sense, criticize him for his opinion, not where he works. I'm sure we can criticize everyone here for where they work, according to your standards. I'm not from the school of judging people on where they work, but rather who they are as a person. Richard Nixon had a nice gig, so did a lot of Catholic priests.  Blank Frigging Stare


Dont get your correlation to priests but you are entitled to your opinion. But my point was he's hardly in a position to see most aging rock bands in Grand Rapids to actually make any assesments of how well a band can still play. And even if they play like crap what gives him the right to say stop?
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Re: Who should hang up their rock 'n' roll boots?
Reply #26 - Nov 16th, 2009 at 1:14pm
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I really have to wonder if part of these types of discussions come from somewhere else.  (insert band name here) should stop so they don't tarnish their reputation, end up playing bars, get too old, etc.  Find me a musician that stops playing until health dictates otherwise.  Fame isn't the issue.  From the fan/critic point of view fame seems to be more of it.  How much of what our writer from Grand Rapids is saying is his own wish to hold on to his youth?  So what if Mick doesn't shimmy like he used to do?  I can't play tackle football with my boys the way I used to either.  Is seeing (name the band here) aging bothering him because his own youth is gone?

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