Ed and Jeff on Bill Simmons Thursday

[evenslow]

Pretty good interview so far, but I just got to the 70-minute mark and I hate hate hate it when Bill uses that old "let's talk about rock bands cause they're aren't many anymore" bullshit

Listening to this guy return again and again to why real rock music isn't popular anymore was almost physically painful, and then at the end he starts talking glowingly about Greta Van Fleet.

Heavy, heavy Gen X/proto-Boomer energy.

Clearly never listened to oh sees

Seriously just roll my eyes at this shit.

There are so many great fucking rock bands out there. Countless. Why is it so hard for these guys to look for it?

And why should rock "come back"?

Maybe rock music was an enjoyable historic quirk, fuelled by the invention of the electric guitar, and it ran its course over fifty years or so.

Classic boofhead reasoning in which everything from when a person's teenage/younger years is "normal" (despite how idiosyncratic it may be), and any subsequent change is a deviation from the mean.

you guys are being deliberately obtuse. he's talking about rock being the dominant, conversation driving style of music. that ended a long time ago. i agree it was annoying for him to keep bringing it up, but his point stands.

even the strokes, white stripes, etc. did not sell anything close to the big acts of their day. is this it ended up selling 1 million. they were much more discussed than they were actually bought.

in reality, the last mainstream rock group was probably "use somebody" era kings of leon or maybe Brothers era Black Keys? i'm talking strictly in record sales and magazine covers. that shit is over, regardless of if you like your little pet rock band or not.

the real answer is we are all dinosaurs who like a bygone genre. i've learned to be fine with that. gigaton helps.

[evenslow]

Pretty good interview so far, but I just got to the 70-minute mark and I hate hate hate it when Bill uses that old "let's talk about rock bands cause they're aren't many anymore" bullshit

Listening to this guy return again and again to why real rock music isn't popular anymore was almost physically painful, and then at the end he starts talking glowingly about Greta Van Fleet.

Heavy, heavy Gen X/proto-Boomer energy.

not to be a stickler but proto-boomer is the silent generation and doubt they know led zeppelin let alone greta van fleet.

What I mean is Gen X'ers who enthusiastically adopt the mindset of Boomerism.

hence the term "stickler." proto means precursor.

[verb_to_trust]

I would have bet my life savings on Simmons making the current-day Mookie Blaylock comparison to Patrick Beverley.

Mookie was so much better of a player than Pat Bev. It's a dumb and lazy comparison.

[dimejinky99]

Guy sounds like a regular like any of us doofus you’ll meet at a preparty before any show but he knew enough and has the right questions and asks them the right way for the most part.

There’s one or two where you can hear them going not answering that and he realizes it too late and reverses for the save.

He did great overall

This was a really fun listen

[Birds in Hell]

Pretty good interview so far, but I just got to the 70-minute mark and I hate hate hate it when Bill uses that old "let's talk about rock bands cause they're aren't many anymore" bullshit

Listening to this guy return again and again to why real rock music isn't popular anymore was almost physically painful, and then at the end he starts talking glowingly about Greta Van Fleet.

Heavy, heavy Gen X/proto-Boomer energy.

Clearly never listened to oh sees

Seriously just roll my eyes at this shit.

There are so many great fucking rock bands out there. Countless. Why is it so hard for these guys to look for it?

And why should rock "come back"?

Maybe rock music was an enjoyable historic quirk, fuelled by the invention of the electric guitar, and it ran its course over fifty years or so.

Classic boofhead reasoning in which everything from when a person's teenage/younger years is "normal" (despite how idiosyncratic it may be), and any subsequent change is a deviation from the mean.

you guys are being deliberately obtuse. he's talking about rock being the dominant, conversation driving style of music. that ended a long time ago. i agree it was annoying for him to keep bringing it up, but his point stands.

Then I think we have different understandings of his point, which I take not to be that the era of the era-defining rock band is over (who could argue otherwise), but that this is both undesirable and unusual.

[Strat]

Im just not sure why spenno has to take my rock n roll away from me

[dimejinky99]

Im just not sure why spenno has to take my rock n roll away from me

God gave rock n roll to you

Put it in your soul


Everyone

[verb_to_trust]

Im just not sure why spenno has to take my rock n roll away from me

He's not. You can still.have Greta Van Fleet

[Strat]

Im just not sure why spenno has to take my rock n roll away from me

He's not. You can still.have Greta Van Fleet

oh my god fuck you

[littlecomment]

Guy sounds like a regular like any of us doofus you’ll meet at a preparty before any show but he knew enough and has the right questions and asks them the right way for the most part.

There’s one or two where you can hear them going not answering that and he realizes it too late and reverses for the save.

He did great overall

This was a really fun listen

Right, it was interesting when it was brought up by Jeff or Ed that Mookie Blaylock (the person) did not have a problem with the initial band name, but it became clear they did not want to delve any deeper into what stopped that from being the name.

[dimejinky99]

Guy sounds like a regular like any of us doofus you’ll meet at a preparty before any show but he knew enough and has the right questions and asks them the right way for the most part.

There’s one or two where you can hear them going not answering that and he realizes it too late and reverses for the save.

He did great overall

This was a really fun listen

Right, it was interesting when it was brought up by Jeff or Ed that Mookie Blaylock (the person) did not have a problem with the initial band name, but it became clear they did not want to delve any deeper into what stopped that from being the name.

That wasn’t even the big one.

There was one blatantly awkward moment and it screeched time a halt and he changed course.
Think it was about Kurt or the Seattle scene thing
It was glaring but he knew and obviously prepped had his next question ready to divert

[VinylGuy]

I looooved Ed talking about the bulls from 1998. That was kinda of my era with them too. Dying to see the doc bill talk about.

[Superblood Wolfmoon]

Im just not sure why spenno has to take my rock n roll away from me

First they tell ya,
You're gonna lose your soul
Then they tell ya,
Find another home,
And then you take a good look around
And they stole your rock and roll
And once it's gone you never get it back

[kreng]

Stone's episodes would be fantastic. His Vs walkthrough is the best pod I've heard this past year.

Where’s that?

[spike]

Stone's episodes would be fantastic. His Vs walkthrough is the best pod I've heard this past year.

Where’s that?

[verb_to_trust]

Stone's episodes would be fantastic. His Vs walkthrough is the best pod I've heard this past year.

Where’s that?

Yeah, where

[dimejinky99]

Who or what is a greta von fleet?

[Tim]

Stone's episodes would be fantastic. His Vs walkthrough is the best pod I've heard this past year.

Where’s that?

Yeah, where

Yeah... and when did Stone play the bongos?

[evenslow]

Who or what is a greta von fleet?

they're a new shitty led zeppelin ripoff band that only a dunce would think is the Next Big Thing.

[evenslow]

Stone's episodes would be fantastic. His Vs walkthrough is the best pod I've heard this past year.

Where’s that?

this is now the best gif.