Baby Blue
I’ve been holding out so long
I’ve been sleeping all alone
Lord I miss you
Well, I’ve been haunted in my sleep
Youve been starring in my dreams
Lord I miss you
The special love I had for you, my baby blue
I’ve been holding out so long
I’ve been sleeping all alone
Lord I miss you
Well, I’ve been haunted in my sleep
Youve been starring in my dreams
Lord I miss you
The special love I had for you, my baby blue
Usually rock bands are a group of friends, who become famous, fight over power and money and wind up hating each other, especially when they have to hang up their pride in order to put on a smile during their cash in reunion tour. I’d give anything to be a fly on the wall backstage at those David Lee Roth Van Halen shows. In the old days, it would be fun just to watch them party, but somehow thinking of all the cool fights they are still probably having I’m almost prefer to witness those.
As I was watching VH1′s Who Rock Honors show, I again thought that it’s pretty amazing that two guys that always pretty much hated each other now seem so loving and appreciative towards each other. I’m talking about The Who’s Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey. It apparently happened in the wake of Townshend’s unfortunate child porn scandal. Roger, who has always pretty much been the epitome of “He may drive me crazy, but you don’t mess with someone in my crew!” guy, stepped up and vigorously defended his one surviving partner, and Townshend appreciated it so much that if you see them on stage or being interviewed together it’s a bigger love fest than Deep Throat was.
Pete will talk about how no one could have interpreted his songs better than Roger. Roger says I’m just honored to be able to sing them. The even have this Abbott and Costello kind of comedic banter going on stage as two old guys who have been through all the wars together and have a bunch of great stories to tell, and of course they do.
The Who are one of the rare bands in Rock History where the singer had almost nothing to do with writing the band’s lyrics. Townshend can sing, but his voice doesn’t have the mean swagger of his guitar work. So he had to trust Daltrey with the creations that he’d ferociously had given birth too, Daltrey had to accept that even though he was the front man that the band would never be led by his vision.
There was a part of the Who’s first final show in Toronto in 1982, where Roger Daltry’s microphone cord and become tangled up with Townshend’s guitar cords. As Roger desperately tried to sing and untangle a complex knot at the same time, you can see that Townshend did absolutely nothing to help Roger, in fact, he almost spitefully seemed to be contemptuous enjoying Daltrey’s struggle as he did absolutely nothing to help his partner. Now Pete would stop the song, hug Roger and untangle the cord for him.
It doesn’t really fit their ” ‘Orrible ‘OO” rep of anger and aggression, but it warms my heart and makes me feel good.
That doesn’t mean that I enjoyed their nostalgic Tea and Theater all that much, but they’ve given enough blood to the cause that they deserve the right to a peaceful friendly final act.
(Just Like) Romeo and Juliet – The Reflections
This song has a killer twist to it. Whenever a guy is laying out his rap to a girl and mentioning Romeo and Juliet, you’re always thinking that he means that he and his mate will have a love so intense that it will match the greatest lovers in history, but by the end of this number he’s talking about how he can’t find a job, and you remember they both wound up dead before their wedding day.
Got a little somethin’ I wanna do
Gonna buy (gonna buy) somethin’ I could ride in
A-Take my girl (take my girl) datin’ at the drive-in
Our love’s gonna be written down in history
A-Just like Romeo and Juliet
I’m gonna buy her pretty presents
Just like the ones in a catalog
Gonna show (gonna show) how much I love
Let her know (let her know) one way or the other
Our love’s gonna be written down in history
A-Just like Romeo and Juliet
(Ooh-ooh-oop)
(Dooo, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doo-doop)
Just Like Romeo and Juliet
Just Like Romeo and Juliet
Just Like Romeo and Juliet
Just Like Romeo and Juliet
Talk about love and romance
Just wait ’til I get myself straight
I’m gonna put Romeo’s fame
Right smack-dab on a date
Ah, all right, now, I’m speculatin’
Wonder what tomorrow’s gonna really bring
If I don’t (if I don’t) find work tomorrow
It’s gonna be (gonna be) heartaches ‘n’ sorrow
Our love’s gonna be destroyed like a tragedy
Just like Romeo and Juliet
Dude played the main event of the World Series of Poker in a costume, busted out and nobody figured it out until much later. Hilarious!
While this fact – dramatic enough – is beyond dispute, the ninety-year-old Adams’s last words as they have come down to us, “Keith Crime survives,” seem a bit too perfectly constructed. Yet no historian ever questioned them.
