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I wombat - 2004-10-11 16:58:54
Hey those aren't all "fellers" I don't think Millie was a feller.

Yeah the rock music biz, I sometimes think that the in mainstream, the music is just playing a supporting role in the grand opera of self destructive youth. It's the medium, but the message is the glamour of the extreme life.
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2fs - 2004-10-11 21:48:36
What's curious is that at some point, "rebelling" became the supposed point of rock'n'roll. I think that idea was borrowed wholesale from _The Wild Ones_ or something...yet the earliest rock stars didn't seem particularly conscious of rebelling ('ceptin maybe Jerry Lee Lewis...although I think that was just he was an ornery bastard, to be polite about it). I blame the Rolling Stones, I guess - or Andrew Loog Oldham, for coming up with that line about "would you want your daughter to date one of the Stones?" It's such a total dead-end though, artistically and personally - if for no other reason than it's such a completely played-out cliche. It's been a few years, but just the fact that there people who actually thought G.G. Allin was anything other than a near-psychopathic shithead, well...like ya said, Paula, "enabler"...
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