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" >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. > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. >http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus