Geezer Rock
If rock music is for the angry and the crazy, why isn’t it for the elderly? Every schoolchild knows, geezers put the age in rage. Just look at all the things geezers have to be pissed about: senior bingo, hair loss, hair gain, Bermuda shorts, early bird specials, prostate problems (playin’, playin’ with the gland). And what about attractive young groupies who call rockers “of a certain age” either ma’am or sir or both?
What do young rockers have to be angry about? Too much sex? Too much hot sauce on their chalupas?
Now let’s talk crazy. Long before Justin Timberlickme flashed Janet Jackson’s nipple jewelry at a stunned Superbowl audience, the Plasmatics’ Wendy O Williams was wearing nothing but electrical tape on her nipples. And that was before she went crazy. I hear Wendy O spent her last days living in the woods, tending to a herd of gray squirrels. Some say she put little tape Xs on their tiny gray nipples.
Wendy O was old-school crazy. It takes experience to think up something like squirrel herding. You punks never would have thought of that, admit it.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:03 am
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