Re: The Gods must be crazy; Zep must be crazy; Pop culture must be crazy too

["L. Bird" <pkeets@hotmail.com>]

>Don't you mean "Semigods?"

No, I think it's demi, meaning half.


> > Elvis? (not quite rock?)
>
>Rock N Roll not Rock.

Here's Mark with the definitions again.  Is Rock N Roll like roots rock?


> > Okay, assuming we throw out the idea that Led Zeppelin went looking for 
>a Daltrey look-alike in the first place,
>
>I wouldn't be as quick as John H to do that...because they were definitely 
>out to get Entwistle and Moon, so who knows if they hadn't spoken with 
>Frampton (who was hanging out with Marriot at the time) first? Sammy Hagar, 
>maybe?

Okay, it's back in.  ;)


> > It does hold water that Jim Morrison was earlier
>
>I don't see where you get this...The Doors got together 2 years after The 
>Who were already a recording band.

I thought they were sort of contemporary, except you didn't hear much of 
either of them until they built up enough of a following to be featured on 
radio and TV.  It's unlikely they borrowed from one another, at least until 
they became successful enough to play on the same bill.  Would that have 
been IOW?  Did they ever play together before that?

Morrison had a quality all of his own, and I don't know that I'd classify 
him with Roger at all.  For one thing, he was heavy into alcohol, and he got 
to believing too much in his own image.  There's a decadence about Morrison 
that plays well with the kids now, but didn't really have much in common 
with the seventies and eighties cock rock.  Could be Led Zeppelin and Ozzie 
picked up some elements from Morrison--I'd be more likely to trace his 
influence in that branch of the tree.


>>Well, were talking about semantics now.  Where does one draw the line at 
>>being a "fan"?

>Knowing the band's output beyond their two most popular albums would be a 
>start, I think.

Maybe he's like those folks that think The Who never produced anything 
worthwhile after MY GENERATION.  He went a few albums further, after all.


> > OK.  I understand the model.  Roger ala Tommy is definitely the largest 
>phallus of this group.

Five foot five inches of it, somebody said on O&S.  ;)


>But that would mean Pete and John are the balls? OK, I can almost see that. 
>And Keith is the sex drive? The Viagra of the band?  Well, they did do a 
>song called "It's Hard."

Their theme song?  :)


keets