Rock & Roll-ish

would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?

“I Would Do Anything For Love”

As a classical musician, it’s very rare for pop or rock to speak to me.

Now we know what Meatloaf wouldn’t do – get vaccinated.

Horrible but funny – whatever the truth is.

I read that the first time they tried out the chair moving across the room thing, he was thrown out of the chair and across the room….

https://www.tmz.com/2022/01/21/meat-loaf-dead-dies-singer/

I never understood his popularity, but RIP. Condolences to his family and friends.

I might let him have air conditioning, but I definitely won’t be asking him to sing “America The Beautiful”!!

Goodbye Ronnie

(yeah, it’s Jerry Lee’s song, but Elvis did a decent cover)

Two of my friends had seen him a couple of years before. Now, I wasn’t a real Elvis fan, but when he was set to play Las Vegas again, my gal pals said, “You gotta come.”

So I did. Three of us went to LV to see Elvis. We had heard that we should tip the guy at the door and asked to be seated farther down. So we ponied up 5 bucks apiece and reque…[Read more]

… the King could always get one HELL of a performance out of the song, even with the rewritten lyrics…

I thought he was the best drummer I had ever seen. Awesome video.

“Welcome back my friends.”

Carl was better. Thanks @babel17 for sharing this. I’m freaking amazed he’s still going strong. What is he now 70? 72? 73? He’s got a smaller kit than what he

used in his early days. I was told the kit he used at the Calif Jam in 74 was like 60, to $75,000. That was during Brain Salad Surgery tour. I was one of the lucky one’s to see that show…[Read more]