I love rock n roll. Well, I did. I’m into a lot of other music, too. But, “my” music was originally rock n roll.
Of course, you know that Joan Jett wasn’t the original to record that song, right? Ever heard of The Arrows?
Anyway, we’re wondering what you’d like to talk about. Anything at all. It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
What’s on your mind?
To lift a line from A Bit of Fry and Laurie, I had literally no idea.
I never heard of The Arrows, and I was never aware anyone but Joan Jett had performed that song.
Having watched the video, it’s funny to think of rebel-tough-hard-core in-your-face rock ‘n’ rollers spending so much time getting their hair styled. Good guitar work. The video is an example of a director/cameraman who had absolutely zero ideas of what to do for a music video. I feel bad for the band having had the fame of this song stolen from them.
I love Joan Jett. I find her eyes…fascinating. Too bad she’s gone full lesbian warrior these days.
A Beyotch Boys tune:
A rube and
A faker
Ooooh, I wanna break ya
See Juniors
Empowered
Come on down to Broward
Mar-a-Largo, Trump Tower, where the hell’s Matt Lauer?
The event in Florida’s key
To the folks at MSNBC
That’s where you want to go
To get away with it all
Bodies on the ground
Topical crisis finally found
We’ll be rolling tape and sound
To the drumbeat of “too many guns around.”
Here on the Potomac.
All hubris
And fakers
And some gay cake bakers
All arms cause
Alarms, ’cause
Communists ain’t Quakers
Mar-A-Largo, Trump Tower, baby where’s the power?
I wanna take you down the Potomac
We’ll get a FISA
Then put on a show
That’s where we wanna go
Way down the Potomac
Collusion
Illusion
Confiscate
Confusion
Osama, Obama, come on, petty drama
Mar-A-Largo, Trump Tower, eavesdrop every hour
…
I want to make that Molon Labe mistake
All I know right now I cant seem to get Bob Dylans ‘Positively 4th Street’ out of my head after hearing it a few days ago.
I refuse to go back to school until all problems in the world are solved.
You have been put on notice, world.
Never bring a naïf to a gun fight.
Good find and a bit of Rock-n-Roll trivia with tonights Open Thread post. Personaly speeking I had never heard of the Arrows nor heard any of their music. Unfortunlty for every group that makes it big, there are groups like these guys who (for whatever reason) don’t……………..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_(British_band)
And yes speaking is spelled “speaking” not “speeking”…my mistake.
Speaking of spelling — the spelling of speaking —
The tweaking is telling — you’re telling of tweaking.
The Dems went down to Florida, they were lookin’ for a**holes to spiel
They were in a bind ’cause they were way behind and willing to make a deal
Then they came across this young man sellin’ a story, playin’ it a lot
And the Dems jumped
At a chance at Trump
And said “Boy, let me tell you what.”
“I bet you didn’t know it, but we fiddle with the truth, too
“And if you’d care to go on the air we’ll aid and abet with you
“Now you play a pretty good victim, boy, but give the Dems their due
“We’ll give a pile of gold for your worthless soul to say ‘We’re better than you.’ ”
The boy said, “My name’s David Hogg, and it might be a sin
But I’ll be on set, and you’re gonna regret, ’cause I’m the best there’s ever been.”
David, rehearse on TiVo, play your victim card
‘Cause hell broke loose in Florida, so hit the administration hard
And if you win you get this shining moment in the sun
But if you lose, your fifteenth minute’s done
♩
Well, there were just seventeen,
You know what I mean
What was overlooked was way beyond compare
So why take a chance with another?
There’s No Understanding There….
♩
— Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?
The Federalist | March 1, 2018 | David Hines
Darn, I wish I had read this last night.
I would have talked about how the price of jukeboxes is skyrocketing.
First it was a dime, then a quarter and now?
Wait, do they still have jukeboxes?
Around here, particularly in Waffle House but in other places, there’s a Touch Tunes device. You download an app, buy credits, and play songs over the speaker from your phone. They make more money buy making the credits location specific. You buy at one Waffle House, and the credits are only good there. Want to go to a different Waffle House or the VFW? Gotta buy credits for there.
So, yeah, kinda, there are still jukeboxes.
Don’t rock the jukebox
I want to hear George Jones.
My hearts not ready
for the Rolling Stones.
Bedrich Smetana, who pioneered the idea that there could be a Czech classical music, and not just a German or Italian one, was born March 2, 1824, in Litomysl, in what is now the Czech Republic. Here is his most famous piece, Vltava (in Bohemian) or Die Moldau (in German), which is a musical rendering of the Moldau River’s progress from its source to its flow through Prague:
Check out the Runaways on YouTube sometime. Teenage Joan and the girls actually could rock that joint back then. That joint being Japan. Her and the band played for the troops over in Afghanistan some years back which deserves some praise I should think.