Mr. Moderator

When not blogging Mr. Moderator enjoys baseball, cooking, and falconry.

This Is Your Rock Town Hall

Mar 012011

Townspeople,

This is your Rock Town Hall!

If you’ve already got Back Office privileges and can initiate threads, by all means use your privileges! If you’d like to acquire such privileges, let us know. If you’ve got a comment that needs to be made, what are you waiting for? If you’re just dropping in and find yourself feeling the need to scat, don’t hesitate to register and post your thoughts. The world of intelligent rock discussion benefits from your participation. If nothing else, your own Mr. Moderator gets a day off from himself. It’s a good thing for you as well as me!

Rock’s Most Iconic Squeeze, Suze Rotolo, Dead at 67

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Feb 282011

Alternate "squeeze" shot!

Rock’s most iconic squeeze, Suze Rotolo, is dead at 67. What rock nerd hasn’t looked at the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and not wanted to be at least one of the two lovebirds pictured?

The young couple walked up and down Jones Street for a few minutes while Hunstein snapped shots. “Bob stuck his hands in the pockets of his jeans and leaned into me,” Rotolo wrote in her 2009 book A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties. “We walked the length of Jones Street facing West Fourth with Bleecker Street at our backs. In some outtakes it’s obvious that we were freezing; certainly Bob was, in that thin jacket. But image was all. As for me, I was never asked to sign a release or paid anything. It never dawned on me to ask.”

Previously…

Dugout Chatter: Rock Oscars Edition

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Feb 282011

The day after the Oscars is probably the third-best day to hold this special edition of Dugout Chatter! You know the drill: please provide your gut answers to the following questions. There ain’t no good guy, there ain’t no bad guy…

What’s the best use of a rock song in a non–rock themed movie?

If Stanley Kubrick had filmed a rock video, what song should he have filmed?

What rock artist or band is most deserving of a future rock biopic?

What’s the most egregious rock ‘n roll detail inaccuracy you recall on film?

What’s the Jaws of the music business?

Of existing rock biopics, what overlooked aspect of the artist’s life do you most wish had been covered?

I look forward to your responses.

Rock Town Hall’s Saturday Night Shut-In: The Laughs Are Piling Up for Your Return

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Feb 262011

Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!

In this week’s edition of Saturday Night Shut-In Mr. Moderator attempts to send some healing love vibrations toward a friend in need and a friend indeed, the Townsman who keeps the trains running on time, sammymaudlin. The Back Office misses his ready laugh in our staff planning sessions.

[audio:https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/RTH-Saturday-Night-Shut-In-17.mp3|titles=RTH Saturday Night Shut-In, episode 17]

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Last Man Standing: Rockin’ Redheads!

Posted by Mr. Moderator

Feb 262011

In honor of Mick Hucknall‘s birthday, whenever that may be, let’s give hope to aspiring rockers with red hair by gathering all rockin’ redheads under one Last Man Standing competition. Dye jobs don’t count. “Strawberry blondes” need to be clearly containing some ripe strawberry coloring—I’d need convincing, for instance, on young Joni Mitchell’s qualifying in this contest. Because this is not a Battle Royale, in which we would be seeking the reddest of rockin’ redheads, birthday boy Mick is only our first entrant. Happy birthday, Mick. Keep it red!