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| From | "Lee Elliott" <lee_elliott59@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: "heavy" Rubinoos ("Rock and Roll is Dead") |
| Date | Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:08:17 -0600 |
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If I'm not mistaken, the origin of "Rock & Roll Is Dead" dates back to their
teens and may have originally been intended for Psychotic Pineapple. It's
hard to tell if there's a coherent message behind the song, but it's always
fun as hell to see them perfrom it live. Ditto "Party Till We Die", which
has a very crisp message, indeed!
Lee
>From: "Eytan Mirsky" <eytanmirsky@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: "heavy" Rubinoos ("Rock and Roll is Dead")
>Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:14:11 -0500
>
>
>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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