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| From | "Jeff" <Jeffrey@dol.net> |
| Subject | In praise of Foghat |
| Date | Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:49:09 -0500 |
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> Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 07:43:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: MarkP <youamwho@yahoo.com>
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: re : In praise of Foghat
> Message-ID: <20031106154317.82296.qmail@web20303.mail.yahoo.com>
>
> Foghat ...after relocating in the USA, Dave Peverett for one lived a
> couple towns over from me. He would frequent a record store here on
> Long Island and I had the honor to commune w/the man on a couple
> occasions. The guy was one of THE most genuinely nice, humble and
pure
> 'rock guys' I've had the honor to chat with. He was a fan, foremost
> ...and a very knowledgeable fan at that. Foghat were indeed a pretty
> damn cool band ... granted, when they slid, they slid large but they
> had a fair run for while back there. I for one don't feel hosed we
got
> stuck w/them and you lot o'er Merry Ol' were graced w/Scotty Walker.
>
> Flame on!
>
> Mark ...born late'58
No flames for you young man! <grin> and that's "Lonesome" Dave Peverett
to us fans <grin again>. Saw them live at the Salisbury (Md) Youth &
Civic Center in 1978 and they truly rocked! Man, we had a good time!
Slagging "our" arena bands is such a lame thing to do because they are
SUCH an easy target. I would venture that if we just started slagging
everything that we don't like (uh, isn't that what we do now?), we'd
find more (and more deserving) targets in *todays* pop-rock pantheon.
It's too easy to beat up on the bands that were their FIRST, since it
all looks so quaint now to todays "hipsters". Yawn. Get over yourselves.
There are only so many notes and so many ways to arrange them, and we
were rearranging the hell out of them 30 years before many of you were
born. It's (probably) been done and we've (probably) seen it, that gives
us PERSPECTIVE and provides CONTEXT. Write and re-write your own
history, ours has already been written and re-written to death
(ad-nauseum, many would say), several times. The big touring bands of
the late 60's and the 70's are just too easy a target. I don't pretend
to understand todays fascination with bands like The Strokes, because
they're NOT OF MY TIME, I'm not 23 anymore. So I don't disrespect them
in any way. Some people like them very much. That's great with me, glad
you all can find a "new" band to get behind. Just leave "ours" alone
since you were a mere zygote when they were popular with all us "old
folks". Us boomers can be damned infuriating, can't we? Or is that just
"annoying as hell"? Both, you say? Right on, brother. Everybody get
together, try and love one another right now ...
Flame goggles ... ON!
Jeff T ... born early '59 (3 days to the day after Buddy Holly died, in
fact! ha! :-)
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