Cool Video: The Who on the Smothers Brothers TV show, Keith Moon’s famous explosion!
This is such a cool performance, I just had to share it here. I’m sure Pete Townshend will talk about this incident for his upcoming rock memoir, so I can’t wait to read what Pete will have to say about this performance. Pete blames part of his hearing loss because of this performance, and I can see why. Pete was standing so close to the bass drum when it exploded. The bass drum explosion almost hit Roger too.
I also loved how John stayed out of everything. He’s like, “These guys are nuts, I’m not gonna let them smash my bass”.
This is one of the Who’s best TV performances though and a pretty historic one too. The Who, have always been one of my favorite classic rock bands. Always fuckin’ loved them!
Kev
Brock defends wrestler, Chris Jericho……again….
WWE Star, Chris Jericho, is in the news again. Of course, every time this guy returns to the business and if he does something controversial, he becomes a big target in media news. Remember, a while back, I think a few years ago, that Jericho was in the news, for getting into a fight with a female fan after a house show? (He punched her in the face…) Well, here is something new this year. Jericho and CM Punk were performing a match at a House show in Brazil.
CM Punk was waving the Brazil flag for the fans, but Jericho took the flag away, and kicked it out of the ring. See the video here, at TMZ.
Brazilian police came close to arresting Jericho for it ’cause it’s against the law to desecrate flags in their country, but Jericho apologized for it and they let him go, but WWE suspended him for 30 days instead.
You guys, Jericho is a bad guy wrestler, a heel. That’s what heel wrestlers do, they’re supposed to do offensive things to get, “heat”. They’ll do whatever it takes to get the crowd booing ’cause that’s what a heel’s job is supposed to do. It’s all part of a wrestling show. I’m sure Jericho doesn’t hate Brazil, this is just part of his act.
On top of all this, heel wrestlers do this stuff all the time in the business over the years, but the way the industry is today, since wrestling is so mainstream, everyone wants to think of “wrestling” as real. Chris Jericho is a great performer. One of the best heel wrestlers around. If he can get himself in the news, get himself in the media being a bad guy “wrestler”, he’s doing all the right things. Whether it gets himself in trouble in real life or not. I mean, how many heel wrestlers out there do something offensive and they don’t make media news? Not too many. You have to do something drastic, in order to get everyone’s attention in a wider scale and Chris Jericho can do that.
That’s what make him a talented performer. Now, it wouldn’t surprise me if this gets turned into a wrestling angle next week on RAW. It’s hard to take things seriously in wrestling. Hard to tell whether these things are real or not. I still support Jericho. He really didn’t mean what he did. He was just being a performer, and that’s his job.
Kev
Today, officially marks the 30th Anniversary of the first Star Wars film, “A New Hope”…
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Love George Lucas or hate him, you can’t deny that he is a creative genius and was pretty successful of his storytelling. While I am more of a Star Trek fan, I can appreciate Star Wars. I do like the original movies and the prequels too. George Lucas got so much hate and disrespect over the years. The man was never afraid to do what he wanted to do. He was never afraid to tell the stories he wanted to tell, whether other people liked it or not. All the success George got with Star Wars over the years, he didn’t get it for nothing. He created it all himself. The first Star Wars movie was heavily inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s film, “The Hidden Fortress”. I believe he wrote the script from there. It wasn’t easy for George to get studios interested in, “Star Wars”, as he kept getting rejected. George really wanted the stories to be told, and he did all he could to get the films made. George really worked hard. Congratulations to George on 30 years. He must be proud even to this day.
I might even watch, “A New Hope” later tonight.
Kev
Being on the same bill with other bands & solo artists with a bigger fan following, don’t let that intiminate you…
I know it sounds exciting when you get asked to open for a bigger established act. An established band or solo artist who is more popular than you and has a bigger fan following. On the night of the gig, when you play your set, you get a small crowd that came to see your performance. When the headlining act gets on the stage, they have a much larger crowd come out. I got this quite a lot over the years. I get like a decent crowd come out to see my performance and sometimes I even get a few people or no crowd at all, but when the headlining act gets on stage, the venue is packed. I know it could be a little bothersome, and make you jealous a little bit, I hear ya.
When this happens, look at the headlining act, for some inspiration. Think to yourself, “Hmmmm, what could I do to get myself there, a bigger fanbase”.
I’m not mad at EBJ for being more successful than me, I’m actually happy for them and proud of them. I wish my music would be in the same level as they are. I would like the same recognition they are getting. I could look at them for inspiration to see how I can get there.
You need to set yourself a plan and some goals. What you want to achieve, in your mission. I would like to be a recognized songwriter more and trying the best I can. Getting success and becoming recognized doesn’t happen over night. It takes hard work. In my next batch of songs, I’m hoping they’ll get more respect ’cause I’m going to try to make my next round of songs, really good as possible. If my new songs get ignored again and don’t get much feedback, I’ll just continue to work harder.
I will definitely try to get a bunch of new songs out this summer, just taking my time.
Kev
In defense of wrestlers getting into the movies…
These days, more and more wrestlers have been getting away from professional wrestling to act in movies more. With wrestlers such as, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Kurt Angle are becoming pretty big movie stars lately. I’m sure many movie fans are accusing them of not having acting talent and I’m sure they think these wrestlers don’t deserve to be in the movies, but in this post, I’ll take a little time to defend them.
People think that wrestlers don’t have acting experience, sorry to say, but these wrestlers have PLENTY Of acting experience. How? Well, professional wrestling is acting. Think of professional wrestling as theater. Both wrestling and acting in movies are pretty much the same thing. When you have years and years of professional wrestling experience, you don’t need to go to college for acting or any of that stuff. Wrestling taught them how to be an actor. They don’t need to be on the Broadway theater stage or do commercials on TV to get their start. They can get right into the movies, right away.
Wrestling helps them become a big name, so they get recognized in the movies easier. The bigger these guys become in the wrestling industry, they accomplished everything they needed to accomplish in wrestling, that there’s nothing left for them to do anymore. That’s why they move away from wrestling, and move on to movies. So they deserve to be in the movies for sure.
I think Dwayne, Steve Austin and Kurt are all doing a good job in movies so far. I’ve seen some of their work recently. I expect even more wrestlers to retire from the business to focus on movies more. I think Triple H could be next. There are rumors he might be retiring from WWE soon, not sure. Triple H has been doing a bunch of straight to video movies for WWE Films. Triple H didn’t do any major big screen movies yet, but I’m sure he’ll get into big screen movies soon when he gets done with wrestling officially.
Kev
All this talk on tanning…
Wow, so the topic of tanning got pretty big on the internet, because of this tanning Mom thing. That story where she brought her 5 year old kid tanning with her.
Here’s my brief thoughts. When I first started bodybuilding & fitness, I thought about tanning, but then I decided I’m never going to do it. Why? Because tanning is very dangerous and silly. There too many gym people that do tanning these days. They go to tanning salons and use tanning beds, or they lay under the sun in the summer time. The reason why people do it ’cause they live in this fantasy world that they want to have perfect bodies. They don’t want to admit that they dream of having a supermodel body so they can look sexy in the summer while out in the beach. People just enjoy that attention for themselves.
I don’t need to look like that. Plus, you never know the bad things that could come out of tanning. It could damage your skin. Also, you skin could look uglier if you don’t do it, right and carefully. It could also increase the chance of skin cancer. Tanning is just not safe, period.
On top of that, you can get an okay tan just by simply walking outside in the sun, just enjoying everyday life, as long as you use suntan lotion so you don’t get burned. Tanning is ugly. I’m proud of the way I am now. Natural is the way to be.
Kev
I don’t understand the hate for Star Trek…
Last night on Netflix, I just finished watching “Season 1″ of the original Star Trek series. I have watched the original series too many times as a kid, I just haven’t seen it in a long while, so it’s nice to start re-watching it. I’m a Trekkie. Proud of it and not ashamed to be a die-hard of this franchise. Over the years, people would bash Star Trek. A lot of people said that Star Trek is boring. I don’t think Star Trek is boring. I think the stories are pretty masterful and intelligent. I think people have a hard time getting into Trek ’cause they look at it like it’s more of a “drama” or “soap opera” mixed with “science fiction”. I also think people don’t like Star Trek ’cause the science is more detailed and they don’t understand it.
Don’t get me wrong, there are things I don’t like about Trek. For example, I wasn’t a fan of “Deep Space Nine”, “Enterprise” with Scott Bakula, and there were a few Star Trek movies I didn’t like. I loved most of the Star Trek movies except for, “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier”, “Star Trek: Insurrection”, and “Star Trek: Nemesis”.
I’m a fan of the original Trek series, I loved The Next Generation, and Voyager was good too. I plan to re-watch all those shows on Netflix. It’s great that Paramount gave Netflix the permission to stream all the series ’cause I was going to start collecting the series on DVD. Don’t have to now. The picture and sound is just as good on Netflix.
Star Trek is cool. Love that franchise more than Star Wars.
Kev
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