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| From | "Eytan Mirsky" <eytanmirsky@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | "heavy" Rubinoos ("Rock and Roll is Dead") |
| Date | Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:14:11 -0500 |
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I also love the Rubinoos and haved since I was in high school in the late
'70's when their albums first came out. But as far as "Rock and Roll is
Dead" goes, I never understood it. I mean, at the time it was released,
Tommy would out on Elton John-like glasses and the band would basically
parody hard-rock cliches. But what were they saying when they sang "Rock
and Roll is Dead and we don't care"? Were they saying that "rock" performers
had killed rock and roll and that they (the rockers) didn't care? At least
that's what I thought they meant. But making the sound of the song so much
like the hard rock they were parodying, they were alienating just those
music fans they were trying to appeal to. I remember seeing them do the song
on American Bandstand and thinking it was a mistake; it didn't give people a
good sense of their usual style.
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