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| From | "Billy G. Spradlin" <bgspradlin@cablelynx.com> |
| Subject | Re: Rubinoos getting "heavy" (sorry if I'm repeating...) |
| Date | Tue, 04 Feb 2003 00:14:03 -0600 |
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>Aren't you thinking of "Party Till We Die," which is truly a great song of
>theirs. As Billy Spradlin said "Rock and Roll is Dead " was their heavy
>metal parody. Like Billy, I saw them do that number on American Bandstand.
>(I tried writing about this in an earlier message that doesn't seem to
>have made it to Audities so sorry if I'm repeating myself). I always
>thought that the point of the song *was* easily misunderstood. It seems to
>be saying that heavy metal rock has killed the kind of fun rock and roll
>that the Rubinoos liked. But unfortunately doing a whole song in a style
>that you think is the antithesis of fun can alienate the very people who
>agree with you.
I agree - I bet people back then didn't get the joke when they performed -
like the people at Winterland in 1977 (when they opened for Elvis Costello)
who booed them when they performed The Pepsi Generation jingle and Sugar Sugar.
Looking back thought performing the song on Bandstand was a mistake - they
should have performed any other song on that LP (or how about the follow-up
45 "Nothing A Little Love Wont Cure" - the girls would have loved that) I
guess they wanted to show they could rock.
Billy
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