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- From: amck@rowdy.mcc.com (Alan McKendree)
- Subject: Re: The end of Rock LONG LIVE ROCK!!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.073030.24439@mcc.com>
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- Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas
- References: <1jmvg1INN7op@vulcan.ksu.ksu.edu> <2B5F6EEB.4196@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 07:30:30 GMT
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- In article <2B5F6EEB.4196@news.service.uci.edu> eaiu243@orion.oac.uci.edu () writes:
- >In article <1jmvg1INN7op@vulcan.ksu.ksu.edu> fjs@vulcan.ksu.ksu.edu (Frank J Sereno) writes:
- >The following written by Pete Townsend, performed by THE WHO:
-
- Almost...please allow a dedicated Who fan (that's me) to correct the following:
-
- >LONG LIVE ROCK
- >
- >I'm tellin' you the story of the scene was changin'
- >Been gone rock was pushin out and scrapin' [very muddy line]
- >We were the first band to vomit in the park
- >And find the distance to the stage to far.
-
- Actual words:
- Down at the Astoria (a club where the band used to play) the scene was changin'
- Bingo and rock were pushin' out X-rating
- (used to show X-rated movies, now being hired for rock shows)
- We were the first band to vomit in the bar
- And find the distance to the stage too far.
-
- >Meanwhile it's gettin' late, ten o'clock
- >Rock is dead they say...
- >Long live rock!
- >
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >I need it every night.
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >Come on and join the line.
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >Be it dead or alive.
- >
- >People walk inside,
-
- "People walk in sideways"
-
- >they're pretending that they're leavin'
- >We put on our makeup
- >And work out all the lead-ins
- >Scalpers in the alley
- >selling tickets to the [something I didn't catch]
-
- "selling tickets made in Hong Kong"
- (or "printed", depending on the recording you're listening to)
-
- >Promoter in the pay-box
- >Wonderin' where the band's gone
- >Back in the parking lot (?)
- >He starts the clock...
-
- "Back in the pub the guv'nor stops the clock"
-
- >Meanwhile it's gettin' late, ten o'clock
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- This line doesn't appear here at all.
-
- >Rock is dead they say...
- >Long live rock!
- >
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >I need it every night.
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >Come on and join the line.
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >Be it dead or alive.
- >
- >Dance slide rock's a fallin'
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Land slide
-
- >Fallin down by our very heads
- ^^
- around
-
- >He tried but you were yawnin'
- ^^
- We
-
- >Look again...rock is dead...
- >Rock is dead...
- >Rock is dead...
- >
- >Place is really jumpin'
- >To the high-watt amps
-
- >And twenty-inch cymbals
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Till a twenty-inch cymbal
-
- >Really cut the lamps
- ^^^^^^
- Fell and
-
- >In the blackout the dance
- ^^^
- they
-
- >Right into th aisle
- >As the door flies open
- >Even the promoter smiles
- >Someone takes his pants off
- >And the rafters knock
- >Rock is dead they say...
- >Long live rock!
- >Long live rock!
- >Long live rock!
- >
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >I need it every night
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >Come on and join the line
- >LONG LIVE ROCK!
- >be it dead or alive!
- >
- >
- >--Andrew "just a prisoner of rock 'n' roll" Laurence
-
- Thanks. I feel much better now.
-
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