You will not be greeted.

<  ----- Everything they say about Bran Muffins in the morning is absolutely true  . Young Joey has been on the Bog for the past three hours .   * Phew ! *  DAMN !!!!!

Some Guy wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 10:49am:


You know...you actually have to show up at a Stones show to participate in greeting...just sayin...

gimmekeef wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 1:35pm:



Seriously, that's probably not gonna happen. About 10 years ago I foolishly posted a few pics of myself online, including one showing my face, and got myself a stalker. So I don't post pics these days let alone try to meet people I've met online.

Some Guy wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 2:13pm:


Alas, I never have the money to attend a concert anyway. Too bad; sounds like you guys have fun.

Paranoid Android wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 5:21pm:


Glad to know I'm not the only one who didn't like that song. It might've been okay if I hadn't heard it 250,000 times but after the first hundred any chance it had with me evaporated. Never got into Van Halen either. I don't hate them, mind you, I just never got into them much.

(Brace for long-winded rant)
I grew up on 70s rock but I find myself not liking it as much as I did back then, though for a different reason. Firstly, it's all too perfectly structured: intro, stanza, chorus, stanza, chorus, solo, stanza, chorus and fade out. That's pretty much every rock song cut in that decade. Compare that to 60s rock when the length and even the structure of a song might be different. They were experimenting. In the 70s they all followed the same structure. Were the bands terrified too terrified to try a different song structure or did the record execs forbid it? Maybe a mix of both.

The second reason I don't care for 70s rock as much as I did then is that's when they really started added that electronic polish in the studio. Now, don't get me wrong, some electronic effects can be good and I guess a little polish never hurt, but they overdid it with some bands... and no one seemed to notice. I didn't either. What did I know? I'd grown up listening to that stuff. It wasn't until ZZ Top's Recycler that I ever gave it much thought. With Recycler they went back to a more organic sound, eschewing electronic and synth-based effects. I liked that even better than their previous stuff, including the famous Eliminator. Listening to Recycler, I was suddenly struck with the realization that I didn't know what some of my fave 70s bands would sound like outside of a studio. I was right about how much of a difference that would make; I've listened to a few of them live since then and they sounded like a different band on stage.
(/long-winded rant)

As an amusing side note, listening to the radio only as a kid left me ignorant of a lot of things. The first time I ever learned much about the Stones was on MTV. I was startled to learn that they were a 60s band! No one had ever mentioned on the radio when I was listening. Turns out some of the Stones songs that I'd been hearing all my life were from before I was born. I hadn't known that.

Another funny note: I was listening to LRS when the Stones came to Louisville and the idiot DJ said that the station's call letters stood for "Louisville's Rolling Stones." I remember thinking, "What?! Yeah, suuuure."

Some Guy wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 10:45am:


The tl;dr version? I talked about what I didn't like about 70s rock (after the fact; I dug it when I was a kid) and then talked about how laughably ignorant I was regarding the history of the Stones when I was a kid.

Joey wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2016 at 11:39am:

Some Guy wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 10:49am:

Archaic reference lost on younger posters.

" The second reason I don't care for 70s rock as much as I did then is that's when they really  ...................... "


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Freya Gin wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 10:38am:
HAHAHA!!! I love it. A Stones fan who hates YCAGWYW. Fucking outstanding Freya, your post of the moment. What do you think of Hotel Californicating? Bohemeian Blasphemy? The River? And Patti Smith's Godawful Rimbaud obsession.

Freya Gin wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 2:10pm:

OK Freya now I'm more curious than ever. You simply must post a pic. We all have at one time or another, (I'm over tying to punctuate), it's unnecessary. Anyway; how can I stalk you girl? I can't swim to Melbourne, let alone Argentina. Messi's the business.