Dugout Chatter: Rock Concert Edition!

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May 252011
 

You know the drill: Dugout Chatter is Rock Town Hall’s rapid-fire thread that requires nothing more than your gut answers! Don’t think too long. Don’t think too hard. Perhaps you shouldn’t think at all. No one’s an expert on the topics that follow. Just answer the questions.

[NOTE: The term rock concert, as used in the following questions, connotes paid attendance at a show by a touring artist, rather than, say, coincidental attendance at the debut of a lame teenage band playing for your 8th grade dance in a church basement.]

  1. What was your first rock concert?
  2. What do you recall most impressed you at this first rock concert?
  3. Have you ever flicked a Bic in approval of a band’s performance?
  4. Have you ever gone home with a piece of a band’s gear (eg, set list, drum sticks, guitar pick, cod piece)?
  5. Who is the most memorable special guest performer you’ve ever seen join a band on stage at a rock concert that you’ve attended?
  6. Have you ever made out at a rock concert?
  7. What band’s live show most made a believer out of you after years of not caring for the band on record?

I look forward to your answers.

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Once and for All: Rock’s Greatest Stage Prop

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May 242011
 

What’s rock’s greatest stage prop? Pink Floyd‘s flying pig? The Rolling Stones‘ inflatable penis? Alice Cooper‘s guillotine? Elvis Costello‘s Spectacular Spinning Songwheel? Spinal Tap‘s occasionally malfunctioning pods? Once and for all…can we determine the definitive answer to this question?

BONUS POINTS for your personal experiences witnessing any of rock’s greatest stage props or even using one with your own band!

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1-2 Punch!

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May 242011
 

Let’s try another 1-2 Punch, shall we? Top 10 lists are too much; Top 5 lists invite too many opportunities for throwing in a hipster, obscuro choice to distinguish oneself from the raging masses. What I’d like to know is what TWO (2) songs you would choose from an artist’s catalog to say as much about that artist that you believe represents said artist’s core as possible? In other words, if you could only use TWO (2) songs from an artist’s catalog to explain all that said artist is about to a Venusian, what TWO (2) songs would you pick to represent said artist’s place in rock ‘n roll?

I’ll pose two artists and you—love ’em or leave ’em—give me each artist’s representative 1-2 Punch. Dig? Here goes!

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Try, Try Again: Bob Dylan to Look Back on His 70th Birthday

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May 242011
 

My boys know I despise ketchup; in fact, more than my dislike of its taste I’m aesthetically opposed to it. Every year on my birthday they get their revenge on me for all the times I’ve told them stuff like, “Come on, you haven’t tried sauteed spinach since you were 3; you might like it now!” So every year on my birthday they see that I eat a couple of french fries dipped in ketchup. Yuck!

Bob Dylan turns 70 today. Bob’s never been one to look back, but who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Who says he might not succeed where he fell short the first time around? If you could convince Dylan to try something he rejected long ago—Come on, Bob, it’s been 30 years since you last tried it!—what would it be?

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Last Man Standing, or Rock Town Hall Presents Life Lessons: To Be a Rock Star

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May 232011
 

Townsman hrrundivbakshi proposed a Last Man Standing thread on songs about what it means to be a Rock Star. I thought we’d already done a meta-rock LMS, which may have had a lot of overlap, but my man HVB was specific:

I want songs that are about becoming a rock star — the follies, the foibles, the Life Lessons learned. Cautionary tales. Aren’t they all cautionary? Can anybody think of an upbeat “Johnny became a rock star” song?

I answer my own question with Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode.”

You are welcome to treat this thread as a standard Last Man Standing, in which—one entry per comment—you aim to be king of the hill, top of the heap among rock nerds exhausting the last answer possible to suit the LMS criteria, but better yet, I ask you to pull on your analytical skills so that we might provide future generations with a summary of the collected Life Lessons of what it means to be a rock star. As you submit your answer, see if you can’t point out a key message or two from the song you have entered. Our work can then be compiled and provided to career counselors.

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All-Star Jam Counts on You!

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May 232011
 

This week’s All-Star Jam counts on you to provide stimulating discussion, nerdy rock news flashes, and other trivialities that only people like us may care about. Such as the following tip, delivered to The Back Office by Townsman tonyola:

Here’s an odd and somewhat sad story…

“NEW YORK — Joseph Brooks, the Academy Award-winning songwriter of “You Light Up My Life” who was awaiting trial for rape, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide in his Manhattan apartment, police said.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43128452/ns/today-entertainment/

That noxious song will never sound quite the same, will it?

Or this Ringo Starr interview, passed along by Townsman plugdin2:

‘Paul likes to think he’s the only remaining Beatle’: Ringo Starr on why the world’s most famous band was lucky to have him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1388489/The-Beatles-Ringo-Starr-Paul-McCartney-likes-think-hes-remaining-Beatle.html

Or perhaps you just want to remind your fellow Townspeople about an opportunity to help a fellow Townsman for as little as $1 AND test your Classic Rock Psychic Powers.

Rock Town Hall can count on you!

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