I agree.. I mean do you really want to see a 40 year old doing teen
angst music.. No! I don't want Tom Jones singing Greenday songs.. I
want him to keep on with the dirty old man. The older the dirtier!
Go Tom Go!
I guess that has to be one of the most fucked up things when you are
a popular rock star.. people pigeon hole you into something and no
one will accept that you are a normal human being.. and like all
human beings.. you Change!..
Mod was a phase for him.. he's gone through it already.. You will get
through it too someday.
john
> >Yeah tell him Bek from Minneapolis says "what's with the fucking snakeskin
>>cowboy boots grand-dad?" Or better yet "why don't you retire already you
>>sad sack"
>What's wrong with him doing 40 year olds music for 40 year olds? It's not as
>if it's being rammed down our ears, not even, like The Style Council, as
>'the face of mod today' - just a journeyman musician like Marriot became,
>and just as ignorable (I haven't heard a song from Heliocentric played
>anywhere). Easy to sneer at, but nice to know there's life after, erm, 35
>(got to keep pushing that age limit up) without trying to stay the permanent
>teenager - give me Into The Sinking over anything Iggy Pop or the Rolling
>Stones have done after a similar age.
>I sure as hell can't see myself wanting to listen to 18 year old kids
>thinking they're the bees knees because they've discovered power pop when
>I'm 40.
>
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