Everyone's favourite raddled ex-junkie grandad, Sir Keith Richards is out of hospital following brain surgery. The report quotes his publicist using the word 'cockamamie', which is just lovely. This word should be used more often, in my admittedly rather stupid opinion.
Went to see Black Mountain last week at the Rescue Rooms, not many folks there, and most of those were hairy blokes. Good gig though, sludgey riffs abounding.
The NME has published a reader's list of their favourite 'rock heroes'...the list is so depressingly crap that I don't know where to begin... Suffice to say that being either dead or addicted to heroin seems to make the grade with kids these days.
Having said that, many of my 'rock heroes', have been known to ride the white horse to Smackfordshire on occasion...there's Keith of course, Dylan, Gram Parsons, Pete Townsend, the New York Dolls, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tim Buckley, Alabama 3, Dee Dee Ramone, and not forgetting everyone's favourite sociopath - 'whoops where's my trousers' GG Allin.
Who's Matt Bellamy anyway?
Top 20 Rock Heroes
1 Kurt Cobain
2 Pete Doherty
3 Morrissey
4 Liam Gallagher
5 Carl Barat
6 Thom Yorke
7 Noel Gallagher
8 David Bowie
9 Ian Brown
10 Ian Curtis
11 Richey Edwards
12 Jack White
13 Joe Strummer
14 Matt Bellamy
15 Axl Rose
16 Bob Dylan
17 Julian Casablancas
18 John Lennon
19 Elliott Smith
20 Alex Kapranos
2 comments:
What a wretched list. Pete Doherty isn't even a very good druggie. Dying young - or youngish, anyway - is always a good route to immortality on this kind of list, hence the dreary Mr Cobain and the long expired Lennon.
I'm back, and without a screaming infant in my arms, so i can bang on about this all the more. How about Freddie Mercury - yes, I know, I know, I know, but I like Queen - Pete Budd, GG Allin. I tell you, I'd have Elton John on the list before half of those cunts. Wouldn't you?
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