Now you funny too!

From the fertile desk of Townsman chuckflack comes the following thread.

Supposedly Peter Grant introduces himself as the manager of Led Zeppelin to Bob Dylan at a party. Dylan responds: “Look man, I don’t come to you with my problems, do I?”

Fresh off the stage, Neil Diamond goes up to Bob backstage at The Last Waltz concert and says, “You’ll have to be pretty good to follow me.” Bob replies, “”What do I have to do, go on stage and fall asleep?”

John McEnroe tells the story of going backstage at a Dylan concert in London in 1994. There are five people in the room: Dylan, Chrissie Hynde, George Harrison, Harrison’s son Dhani, and somebody McEnroe doesn’t recognize. McEnroe introduces himself to the unknown individual and asks who he is. Van Morrison responds: “I’m Bozo the Fucking Clown.”

After a show in Cleveland in the early 1990s, Grant Hart is talking to a few fans outside at his van. Someone asks him what he thinks of the Rock Hall being built in Cleveland. Hart says, “The only Hall of Fame rock needs is everybody’s individual record collection.”

Lester Bangs on Elvis Presley: “He was the only male performer I have ever seen to whom I responded sexually; it wasn’t real arousal, rather an erection of the heart, when I looked at him I went mad with desire and envy and worship and self-projection.”

What are the other great rock one-liners?

As part of RTH’s ongoing series of “CHOOSE SIDES!” posts, in which you, the reader, are required to stop dickin’ around and just choose sides in an ongoing Rock argument, disagreement, or feud, please consider the following. Then, pick the Aerosmith member you believe to be less deluded: Steven Tyler or Joe Perry. Yes, it’s your turn to… CHOOSE SIDES!

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry confirmed rumors that singer Steven Tyler has left the band. Tyler, who suffered a broken shoulder at an August concert in Sturgis, SD, said recently that he planned to “work on the brand of myself.” Said Perry, “We’ll probably find somebody else and then we’ll be able to move Aerosmith up a notch.”

If you don’t know the drill by now, that’s no reason not to learn it quickly and take part in our occasional “gut check” on some of rock’s hardest-hitting-yet-rarely-asked questions! Don’t take too much time on the following questions, but answer candidly and in as much depth as you feel necessary. There are no wrong answers, but “right” answers have been known to crop up.

Has the disparity between craftsmanship and content ever been so great as that in Queen‘s “Bohemian Rhapsody?” (That is, “What a waste of time that song is, but boy do I admire the work that went into it!”)

Has anyone in rock had a more elegant approach to baldness over the course of his career than Brian Eno?

Beside Jefferson Starship, what’s the most recent example of music you never cared for that you’ve now begun to appreciate?

Beside Queen, if applicable, is there an artist whose music you don’t like yet whose album productions you do like a lot?

If Sting characterizes the e-mail compliment of an NPR listener as “nourishing,” what does the guy shit?

I look forward to your responses.