Some random thoughts....

[prince_eric]

while watching VH1's Rock Honors for The Who.

• Weirdly enough, the best (non-Who) performance of the night was Tenacious D's cover of "Squeeze Box"


• The Foo Fighters were a close second, covering "Young Man's Blues" and "Bargain"


• The Flaming Lips and Incubus sucked. They couldn't find anyone else to fill those slots? I don't think I can listen to Tommy without some serious therapy after seeing what those two sets of talentless assholes did to their selections.


• Pearl Jam did two songs from the greatest Who album, more or less note-for-note. How...boring.


• Zak Starkey is a passable replacement for Keith Moon. Pino Palladino isn't able to pull of filling in for Entwhistle.


• Townshend and Daltry can still bring it.

After watching this, I think it's official. All my idols are dead or have sold out. Quite often both.

Comments

[dilickjm.livejournal.com]

Um.

Ow.

Johnny Rotten hawking butter.

I need to go have a lie down, I think.

You sir, are wrong.

[geordieyankee.livejournal.com]

Right. The Flaming Lips were awesome. They rocked the show, and were a close second to Pearl Jam for best performance. Vedder hit every note, on very hard songs, and the band was rock solid and blew it all away.

Foos were adequate, but Young Man Blues isn't even a Who original, it's a Mose Allison jazz track from the 30s. I thought they were a bit disappointing, and while Bargain was good, YMB was a crap track to start with.

Tenacious D sucked. Incubus sucked. Zak Starkey is the second coming of the man. (Moon actually taught him how to drum, so there you go..) Pino Palladino is the only person alive who could play The Ox's part well enough to let Rog and Pete shine without overpowering them, which even Entwistle used to do. Great player.

And yes, Rog and Pete can still bring it. Just fantastic.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I liked Pearl Jam's performance there, and thought the Foo Fighters were the best performance I saw that night (I watched this when it aired originally).

Tenacious D surprised me with just how well they performed.

I've never liked the Flaming Lips, so it doesn't surprise me that I thought they sucked.

Incubus, while a band I generally like in an inoffensive aternapop sorta way, was just wrong for this.

As far as Lydon selling butter? It's not the sort of thing I let bother me anymore. I still enjoy my old PIL and Sex Pistols stuff.