Empty gesture of a poseur

mousepod · 02-25-2007, 10:53 AM

I just watched the performance on SNL. The songs were great - the band was tight. The smashed guitar - I didn't get it. It seemed more rehearsed than passionate. I hate to sound like an old fuddy-duddy, but if you can't do it better (or at least differently) than those who came before you, then why bother?

This is the quintessential smash. Never done better.

(Well, maybe the Clash at the Palladium)

lindyhop · 02-25-2007, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by mousepod

This is the quintessential smash. Never done better.

I don't know. Even there they're smashing things up because they're expected to. I saw The Who in 1967 and it was kind of silly seeing them smash things up in the afternoon knowing that they had another show that night. But we would have been disappointed if they hadn't done it.

The stupidest thing about that particular show was that the Who wasn't the headliner. My friends and I went to see the Association who closed the show. I was 13, what did I know?

02-25-2007, 10:53 AM	#1
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	I just watched the performance on SNL. The songs were great - the band was tight. The smashed guitar - I didn't get it. It seemed more rehearsed than passionate. I hate to sound like an old fuddy-duddy, but if you can't do it better (or at least differently) than those who came before you, then why bother? This is the quintessential smash. Never done better. (Well, maybe the Clash at the Palladium) __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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