Ever see a musician in concert (ie, in the flesh – not on video) who was as stoned as Sly Stone appears to be in this Midnight Special performance with Tom Jones? For that matter, ever see a musician in concert with as much as chest hair as Jones displays?
The RTH Glossary entry for Mandom has been updated. For a fuller explanation of this phenomenon, please see the original entry (linked at the title of this entry), following the jump!
“A guy who looks a lot like Joe Piscopo…”
“These kids got it easy, huh?”
The challenge is simple: Let’s expose rock’s leeches and hangers-on. Like those websites that allow you to check whether a child molester or contributor to a political candidate you find offensive lives in your neighborhood, this day’s Last Man Standing will call out those figures in rock that we know too much about through countless rock bios and documentaries on a particular artist or scene without knowing much about what said figure contributed to rock ‘n roll.
To qualify, the rock leech or hanger-on must have had a longer run in the spotlight than Beatles’ sham studio engineer Magic Alex while actually contributing a little less to rock ‘n roll than Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham.
If I may, I’ll kick off this challenge with one of probably a dozen qualifying Bob Dylan leeches and hangers-on… Continue reading »
For some reason, this is what YouTube thought I might be looking for. It kind of makes sense, don’t you think?
I really like this “song.” The serious question is “why”?
I look forward to your responses.
HVB
Despite quadrennial proclamations in the media of the Year of Women in Rock, rock ‘n roll has remained a male-driven art form. However, the commercial end of the genre requires a broader scope. As any local rock band can tell you, to build an audience, you’ve got to get the ladies in the door and near the stage. For every woman a rock band (male or female led) attracts near the front of the stage at its shows, three dudes in the club pull themselves away from the bar or back of the room and get closer to what’s actually the Main Attraction that night, any night.
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