Jesus, Senator, as ever, you continue to be a self-righteous asshole, and not a very bright one at that. Who, I ask you, said anything about expecting Jagger to do anything? I actually don't necessarily agree with Matt's comment above regarding Jagger's "patrician indifference" to what was coming down at Altamont, but…

GP
There's a BBC documentary on the life and death of Gram Parsons (not really a "rock movie," I admit) that features some footage of GP acting very badly indeed during his days with Burritos. Showing up for gigs too drunk and stoned to stand up, much less play, etc.

Oh man, I'm with you there. I LOVE Leonard Cohen, and I HATED that movie, because of what all the poseurs did to his songs. A big part of the beauty of LC's music is that it's understated, and most of the performers in that movie emoted the hell out of every tune. Awful.

Agreed. I posted on this on the previous page, but I like the way you put it: "feeble entreaties for calm" is exactly right.

Not arguing here, cause to eachhis own, but I like "Oil Man's War," along with the rest of that album.

thanks Marcus Gilmer!
For giving a nod to Kathleen Edwards. I was so bowled over by Asking for Flowers that I gave copies to two or three people who I don't even know that well, but figured they would appreciate its wonderfulness. Never heard a word from any of em, which I guess affirms on a minor level her status as…

Well, went back and listened to Full Moon Fever and you're right and I'm wrong: the joke is on there. So yea, mea culpa, gotta be more careful about what I'm sure of. I'm still sure that it's annoying, though.

In fact I'm not wrong; I'm sure of myself because I'm right. And given that sense of humor is a matter of taste or opinion, and mine is that after repeated listenings the joke isn't funny any more (and repeated listenings are also why I know I'm right), there's really no way of arguing with it, except for assholes…

moby grape
Saw this legendary band play live two or three times in San Francisco during my teen years and they were simply amazing. A combination of record company hype and drugs caused them to crash and burn soon after their great first album was released. So much brilliant potential lost.

No, it was on the vinyl edition of Damn the Torpedoes, which came out at the time the transition from vinyl to CDs was at its height. Half way through the record TP came in with a voice over to say that at this point in the record people listening on CD would have to be patient while people listening on vinyl got up…

Soybomb, your memory of the show is obviously much better than mine, and I understand the point you're making about Roy Clark's career there been less sad than Buck's. Still, I can't help but think that Roy might have found better venues for his talent than Hee Haw.

Does this mean he no longer needs to burn his credit cards for fuel?

Love the Derailers, too, although they were guilty of some weird digressions into surf and pop music that didn't work. Full Western Dress is an album with some truly great country tunes on it, including the classic tear-jerker, "Play Me The Waltz of the Angels."

Speaking of Roy Clark, there's another artist who squandered his credibility on that horrible show. The guy was (is?) a monster guitar player.

As they say, he went a long way around the block for that one.

The lyrics fit, but I don't think Buck was into double meanings, unless you consider love an addiction, which many do.

I like a lot of Buck's songs, but even on the good ones his manipulative character comes through. They're well-crafted rather than soulful, catchy rather than heart-felt. Buck is singing for the money; George Jones is singing for the money, but also because he means it.

@C.C. Baxter: Speaking as one who has had considerable experience dealing with show biz publicists, I have never seen the words "respected" and "well liked" used in conjunction with that profession. If the description is, in fact, appropriate in Ms. Chasen's case, it would indeed be a rarity, if not a first.

Due to a recent discussion of Scorsese's soundtracks on the AV Club boards — a discussion that got quite nasty, thanks to a particularly trollish defender of his not-very-creative use of certain iconic Stones and Clapton songs — I am interested to see that, as far as I can tell, this is the first mention of Scorsese…

I still can't figure out his use of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" as the song all the rockers emotionally sing in unison on the band bus in Almost Famous. He's been on more band buses than I have (I'm up to O so far), but that just does not feel right.