<p>Too many people dis some of the oldsters</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBXcS6TLy0&mode=related&search=[/url]”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JBXcS6TLy0&mode=related&search=</a></p>
<p>My apologies for the non sequitur. The “good topic” as best I can remember it now, having been interrupted by a conference call, had to do with the age of various rock musicians. My niece was trying to explain to me this weekend how hot the Red Hot Chili Peppers are. All of her friends went to see them in Albany a few weeks ago, apparently. I was trying to explain to her that you can still be hot at our age, and was trying to use them as an example, but she refused to believe that Anthony Kiedis (the hottest man alive) is now 45–only five years younger than yours truly.</p>
<p>Hence my clip of the RHCP playing “Castles Made of Sand”. Flea is the best bass player that has ever lived. John Frusciante (age 17 in that clip) is one of the greatest guitarists that has ever lived. Chad Smith (who looks like Charlie Sheen with all that hair) is the old man now, at about 47. I just love that clip of them playing Hendrix back when I was under 30 myself.</p>
<p>Haha, Anthony Kiedis is older than me!</p>
<p>you’re an unpredictable woman, driver. maybe it’s biceps blindness, but the music in that clip is just awful.</p>
<p>I like the biceps, but put them aside, and just listen. That is the sound of musicianship. I particularly love the 17-year-old guitarist. And Flea is the best bass player since Stanley Clarke.</p>
<p>But Mick Jagger is no longer hot. Sadly.</p>
<p>Although Harrison Ford is.</p>
<p>I tried. I must now face my aesthetic limitations. I envy those who develop strong feelings to the so called rock and the roll music and her offshoots. This would include the group of everyone but me. Me a square?</p>
<p>This clip should make Hendrix proud…</p>
<p>Ro, you have to watch that clip again. I learned most of what I know about classical music from “the thin white duke”–my 17-year-old son. He plays solo Bach, he’s played the Beethoven violin concert with orchestra (as the soloist) and I’ve told him–don’t you realize that Beethoven was the Jimi Hendrix of his day? But he despises rock music.</p>
<p>And I say to you, my good friend rorosen, that this scrawny tattooed 17-year-old boy playing “Castles Made of Sand” is performing the equivalent of the Beethoven concerto–on electric guitar–and he has made it his own. He owns it. That’s the mark of a great soloist (and I’m not even talking about that beautiful, short solo–listen to the whole thing). That is confidence, that is playing in The Zone–that is virtuosity. Listen to John Mayall’s “Bluesbreakers” and celebrate 18-year-old Eric Clapton. That is the real stuff. Wish I could be 18 again.</p>
<p>i ike th clothes…think that will be what my H and his friends do for halloween next year, if only the bodies were as trim</p>
<p>Ahhh… I’m with rorosen. I could’nt finish watching the clip (I enjoyed the clothes, and the biceps, though). I’ll go with David Oistrakh playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto. H went to see copying Beethoven and came home raving about the wonderful music. I had gagged at the anachronisms and did not go.</p>
<p>Rocksters aging well:</p>
<p>Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) - 51
Henry Rollins (Black Flag) - 45
Bruce Springsteen - 57
Roger Daltry - 62!
Susanna Hoffs (Bangles) - 47
Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips) - 45</p>
<p>I think you have to be a musician and a Hendrix fan to realize just how hard it is to pull off a convincing Hendrix cover. It’s really tough, and a rare accomplishment, particularly at that young age.</p>
<p>Susanna Hoffs definitely aged much better than Matthew Sweet. Rickenbacker-slinging eye-candy that she may be, though, she’s no Anthony Kiedis. Great performance here:
<a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=CSzNb-p2ftQ[/url]”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=CSzNb-p2ftQ</a>
Very strange posting stuff going on today. This was posted in response to M&Sdad’s post (#14) two posts later. Cue: Twilight Zone music.</p>
<p>Pay attention, Ro, this is what Rock-n-roll heaven is like. I’m a better guitar player.</p>
<p>Sorry, multi-gifted teacher, I have tried. Clips are (mildly) entertaining but not profound. Your son is wise beyond his years. Any 3 seconds of great classical music contain greater nourishment. However, if you get your wish and are regressed to age 18 the experience of watching you slap a guitar could probably lure me into any suspicious venue where these unsanitary rites are held.</p>
<p>I love the Chili Peppers but found that clip impossible to watch (and worse to listen to) and stopped about a third of the way in.</p>
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Stunning!! Really?? That’s a near-perfect rendition of a true rock masterpiece. You guys are just boring. Here’s something more your speed, but you need to embrace the fact that a kid playing “Castles” is just as profound as a kid playing Beethoven or Mozart or any other virtuoso piece. Hope I die before I get old. <a href=“http://youtube.com/watch?v=38lyMSJspQo[/url]”>http://youtube.com/watch?v=38lyMSJspQo</a></p>
<p>the only ‘embrace’ granted is Van Cliburn’s long fingers as they ranged congratulatorily over the straps of the victorious Rachmaninoff pianist’s red dress,…other than that, i can’t say which field is more horrid, that of competitive piano or undulating rock-addled crowds</p>
<p>are you trying to destroy our brains? classical flashbacks indeed,…</p>
<p>too late for that,…though certainly you are more desirable now than ever.
(is the coast clear?)</p>
<p>Driver,</p>
<p>I am holding out until I get old, still listening to a variety of musical styles…</p>
<p>Driver, If I listed the genres of music that various members of my family listen to and play regularly, which pretty much cover the full gamut, you’d see I have a wide range of tastes and interests, and can hear musicality, no matter the genre.</p>
<p>But, same as I say to my son, who used to try to sing the praises of the technique and musicality in some screamo (thankfully, he has moved out of that phase), it just wasn’t there. Screaming is screaming, no matter how fast the double bass drum pedal or how interesting the time signatures. That’s how I feel about the early CP clip!</p>