Old Rock Stars

Bill Walker

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I went to see America yesterday, they were big in the 70's, songs like Horse With No Name, Dont Cross The River, Ventura Highway etc Ive always liked their records and have all their albums.
Anyway, they were really shit, they just cant sing anymore, really bad singing, they had a young guy playing guitar who sang the harder ones and they joined in on the chorus.

Really, your better off watching a good tribute band, these old guys just cant cut it anymore. Thats the last time I go to see a 70's or 60's band.
 
Some of the older bands are still doing good....you're just an old ozzy curmudgeon :)
 
The "Boomer Generation" are aging badly. At least the entertainers are. I was watching the Yes' HOF induction ceremony. Fuck! Rick Wakeman looked like a doddering old hill troll in a Jim Henson Fantasy movie. A lifetime of drugs, bad lifetstyle choices and bad hair pieces have finally got to them. The jazz crooners and be bop musicians that came before them like Sinatra and Mikes Davis had their moments but they always toned it down when they worked. Some jazz musicians died from smack but a lot like Davis, kicked it and lived smart. Sinatra famously never drank when he recorded albums. But a lot of rock musicians ate bad food, did bad drugs while touring in cramped buses for decades.... well that catches up with you.
 
Saw a version of the band Nazareth couple of weeks ago had one original member left, played their two hits within the first four songs and after that nobody was interested and started drifting away from the stage, all you could hear was the lead singer swearing at what remained of the crowd trying to get them to stay !!!!!
 
McCartney is on here soon, he has sold out a football stadium, the best seats are about $800 or something daft, fuckin mental, his voice has just gone.....he was a great singer but spent so many years screaming his rockier stuff that his vocal chords are shredded

Rick Wakeman spent years drinking a bottle of scotch everyday so Im surprised he's still breathing lol
 

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