Red Mosquito

Bwahahaha. Bill Simmons signed off by calling the new album GigaTRON.

If you read all the credits for “Obey The Law Of The Heart” you’ll see “Grunt: John”

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

I probably would not have made the Eddie Vedder / Patrick Beverley comparison.

RAG319 wrote: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.

scrub12 wrote:When Ed said the best they sounded was yesterday because he was listening to their rehearsal tapes for the tour, that hurt a little bit. Hopefully the Europe tour is good to go, but I struggle to see how with what's going on.

This album is so good I so wish they were able to deliver the tour because I really feel it would have been a great one

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.

I felt the silence from JA/EV regarding the GVF comment was telling.

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.

Silence from Ed and Jeff when he mentions Greta van fleet. That was nice of them to not say anything disparaging of that shit band.

As a massive Rush fan, I adored Ed talking about how inspiring their doc was in terms of band longevity and camaraderie

dad wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.

Silence from Ed and Jeff when he mentions Greta van fleet. That was nice of them to not say anything disparaging of that shit band.

I thought the same thing. Crickets when Bill brought them up.

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.

I can understand what he's at least saying in terms of rock capturing the musical zeitgeist right now, but yeah.

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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

oneway23 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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?

Loved hearing EV spark cigs & call for another beer. forever, man.

swan wrote:Loved hearing EV spark cigs & call for another beer. forever, man.

That wuddn't a cig

Great. Now there will be a ton more kids in the first few rows holding signs and crying.

Strat wrote:

oneway23 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:

oneway23 wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.

Because i like rock music and theres plenty of room for all of the music?

evenslow wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

RAG319 wrote: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.