It’s that time again: time for that rapid-fire round of hard-hitting questions, known in the Halls of Rock as Dugout Chatter! Remember, there are no right or wrong answers, only true ones. Let’s get to it!
Neil Young‘s Le Noise: pointless, stupid, or all the things critics tend to say about any production involving Daniel Lanois?
I saw that Eminem has supposedly released another comeback, which I believe would make for his second or third comeback album in a row without having once come back and gone away in between? How many times can one artist make a “comeback” album, and if more than one time, can an artist comeback a subsequent time without having successfully returned and gone away once before?
Excluding young Michael Jackson, who was the greatest preteen/teenage performer in rock?
What’s more damaging to the environment, fall leaf-blower emissions or the destruction of trees used to print the review of any new Eric Clapton album?
What rock-related topic is most in need of a Main Stage poll? You may supply the answer options, but hold onto your specific answer in case your poll is chosen for eventual appearance.
I look forward to your responses.
Le Noise-never heard it.
nobody ever really comes back, and now the phrase is just another predictable marketing tool.
teen performer-Precilla Presley
hahaha-clapton reviews!
when did rock and roll die
a.) when Elvis got drafted
b.) when The Beatles broke up
c.) When Led Zeppelin broke up
d.)Rock is alive and well you punk ass snobs!
Neil Young‘s Le Noise:
I like it, but then I love me some NY.
Comebacks:
Dylan has come back approximately 37 times, and every recent Stones album has been their best since Exile.
Excluding young Michael Jackson, who was the greatest preteen/teenage performer in rock?
I’m sorry, but it’s Brenda Lee.
What’s more damaging to the environment, fall leaf-blower emissions or the destruction of trees used to print the review of any new Eric Clapton album?
Leaf blowers must die. In comparison, Eric is God.
Poll:
Computers in music:
a) Computers and music are mortal enemies.
b) I don’t object to the use of computers, but too much is bad for music.
c) Down with guitars! Pass me the mouse!
d) My computer goes to eleven.
e) I like turtles.
Neil Young‘s Le Noise: pointless, stupid, or all the things critics tend to say about any production involving Daniel Lanois?
Dunno
I saw that Eminem has supposedly released another comeback, which I believe would make for his second or third comeback album in a row without having once come back and gone away in between? How many times can one artist make a “comeback” album, and if more than one time, can an artist comeback a subsequent time without having successfully returned and gone away once before?
I’m confused! All I know is: just once, I want to see a critic explicitly hail somebody’s comeback album as a comeback from their most recent attempt at a comeback.
Excluding young Michael Jackson, who was the greatest preteen/teenage performer in rock?
Browning Bryant! No, wait… Prince? Paul Weller?
What’s more damaging to the environment, fall leaf-blower emissions or the destruction of trees used to print the review of any new Eric Clapton album?
LEAF BLOWERS! See my latest fave cause: http://www.causes.com/causes/546333-use-a-freakin-rake
What rock-related topic is most in need of a Main Stage poll? You may supply the answer options, but hold onto your specific answer in case your poll is chosen for eventual appearance.
Now THIS requires serious thought!
Neil Young‘s Le Noise:
Neil can do whatever he wants now-a-days but that doesn’t mean I’ll listen to it. I’ve always admired his quirky attitude but I can only take his music in small doses. I heard a few tracks of this new thing and I’ll pass.
How many times can one artist make a “comeback” album, and if more than one time, can an artist comeback a subsequent time without having successfully returned and gone away once before?:
To make a “comeback” one must have truly “gone away”. I think you only get one chance to return…
Excluding young Michael Jackson, who was the greatest preteen/teenage performer in rock?:
Tommy Stinson
What’s more damaging to the environment, fall leaf-blower emissions or the destruction of trees used to print the review of any new Eric Clapton album?:
Oh great, another RTH Morton’s Fork question…
What rock-related topic is most in need of a Main Stage poll?:
At which point does a band become something other than a “Rock band”:
1. Adding an extra guitar to a 4 piece.
2. Adding a “percussionist”
3. Adding a horn section
4. Adding background singers
5. Adding weird dude who dances only
I haven’t heard Le Noise but I watched the “Making of” youtube linked here awhile ago. Seems like a full album based on a production conceit would be a little much, no matter how much I dig Neil’s guitar tone.
You can comeback as many times as public buys it. Once you become a joke for it, you’re done. Problem is you never know until the bottom drops out.
Teenage rocker: Tommy from the Replacements is a good answer. Also, I thoroughly enjoyed the Paul Green School of Rock all-star show I saw a few years ago.
From a Blues standpoint, Clapton is old school, like a rake. Leaf blowers are an unnecessary update, like Jon Spencer.
Maybe I’ll include a poll question the next time I venture up to the Main Stage.
Neil Young and Daniel Lanois?
I heard two songs. Both were interesting but not particularly memorable.
Comeback: Isn’t David Bowie a leader in this field? I would imagine that the answer would reveal itself if you were to create some sort of chart or graph based on his career.
The greatest preteen/teenage performer in rock?
Those young imps in the Starvation Army Corps Band
Leaf-blower emissions or a review of any new Eric Clapton album?
I’ll go with the Crapton reviews. The leaf blower might be damaging but at least it serves a purpose, however disproportionate the benefits may be.
Main Stage poll: Recently, on Sound Opinions, Jim DeRogatis claimed that the Moog was as influential to popular music as the Les Paul or the Tele. That is obviously absolute bullshit, but which instrument would you chose to represent Rock and Roll other than the guitar?
1. The upright piano
2. The grand piano
3. The Hammond B3
4. Farfisa/Vox organ
5. Sax
6. Tamborine
7. Shure SM58
8. Seriously, the Moog
Neil Young‘s Le Noise: pointless, stupid, or all the things critics tend to say about any production involving Daniel Lanois?
– Yes. And hearing it won’t change my answer either. I mean to have one positive response.
I saw that Eminem has supposedly released another comeback, which I believe would make for his second or third comeback album in a row without having once come back and gone away in between? How many times can one artist make a “comeback” album, and if more than one time, can an artist comeback a subsequent time without having successfully returned and gone away once before?
– I’d like to take this opportunity to make my comeback answer. It’s been a long several minutes since the last of my hundreds of responses, and I hope you haven’t forgotten me as a responder ,and are willing to read this, despite the fact it may be a lot different that what I’ve said before. I know I’ve never once created a thread, but my putting these words together in a slightly different order may say something to you if you just give them a chance. Thank you for granting me a moment of your time.
Excluding young Michael Jackson, who was the greatest preteen/teenage performer in rock?
– Dave Davies
What’s more damaging to the environment, fall leaf-blower emissions or the destruction of trees used to print the review of any new Eric Clapton album?
– Leaf blowers are almost as bad as hosing off sidewalks to clean them. I feat that just as there are rakes to clear away laves, so too there would still be reviews of Eric Clapton releases even if we got our news from travelling tattoo artists and not printed or electronic articles. Probably even more of them, in fact. Plus, the review only implies the awful sound and waste, the leaf blower IS the awful sound and waste.
What rock-related topic is most in need of a Main Stage poll? You may supply the answer options, but hold onto your specific answer in case your poll is chosen for eventual appearance.
When a new Rock Town Hall poll is posted you:
1. Eagerly answer using one of the available options.
2. Same as #1, but I wish eagerly wasn’t part of that answer.
3. Same as #2, but wish more of the words were replaced to form an answer describing my viewpoint.
4. Same as #3, but rue the fact that adding your own totally inappropriate wiseass answer is no longer an option.
5. Same as #4, but hold the mayo.
6. There is no answer number six.
7. Walter Becker’s Beard.
8. Are you still reading this?
I don’t know what his exact words were, but if he said “popular music” maybe the problem is that you’re conflating that term with “Rock and Roll.” They’re not the same thing.
Nice!
Do you think “rock and roll” would be that much of a difference, BigSteve? My gut tells me cdm was right to call COWshit (thanks, gregg) on that statement regardless.
Q: Neil Young‘s Le Noise: pointless, stupid, or all the things critics tend to say about any production involving Daniel Lanois?
A: No idea. I will step up for Lanois to some extent: I think his work with U2 has generally been excellent and even though a lot of Dylan people think that Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind are good records DESPITE Lanois, I think that his peculiar Lanoisity is a contributing factor to the strength of those records. That said, I felt this a lot more before hearing the un-Lanoised versions of some songs from these records on Tell-Tale Signs.
Q: How many times can one artist make a “comeback” album, and if more than one time, can an artist comeback a subsequent time without having successfully returned and gone away once before?
A: Like Dylan says, You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way. And who would know better than he?
Q: Excluding young Michael Jackson, who was the greatest preteen/teenage performer in rock?
A: Little Stevie Wonder. Everybody say yeah! Yeah!
Q: What’s more damaging to the environment, fall leaf-blower emissions or the destruction of trees used to print the review of any new Eric Clapton album?
A: I’ll cut EC a break and go with the leaf blowers, ’cause I hate those things and the a-holes who blow leaves and crap into the middle of the road as if it were there personal dumping ground.
Q: What rock-related topic is most in need of a Main Stage poll? You may supply the answer options, but hold onto your specific answer in case your poll is chosen for eventual appearance.
A: “What rock-related topic is most in need of a Main Stage poll?” Did I just blow your mind?
Either way, I think it’s an absurd statement but I’ll see if I still have the podcast so that I can verify.
I’m afraid that last answer is going to crash the server.
No, he said it was as influential to “rock” as the Les Paul and the Telecaster, and then later on he said it’s no exaggeration that the moog is every bit as important as the Les Paul and the Telecaster. I’m not questioning their popularity but I’ve yet to see the release of a Synth Hero video game.
Ok then, I don’t get it either. The Moog was basically an invention that converted voltage into sound oscillators. It was never *that* popular, and historically it’s kind of a blip (!). Now drum machines/sequencers I think you could make more of a case.
Thanks for the “Freakin’ Rake” connection. Here, here (or hear, hear, as you can do when those leaf blowers aren’t going)!
Eminem quit the biz after his 2004 CD Encore and put out a best of “Curtain Call” the next year.
Eminem’s last record Relapse (2009) was his “comeback” after 5 years and it returned him to the top of the charts (#1 in 8 countries), but for some reason he has gone back and said that he hates this record and that the new one Recovery (2010) is his “real” come back (as in back to form? quality?)
Don’t know if you can get an Annulment in rock and roll
Best preteen performer? I woulda loved to have seen a Box Top era Chilton. Or Andy Rosenau sing Corporation Rock in that mock turtleneck.