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I Try to Force My Nephew into Listening to Beck’s Bolero My Way to Show Off and Have Fun

Ok, click on the link and let’s have fun. Hopefully, it takes exactly as long as the song.

This post does not have Jeff Beck’s picture on it. It has Keith Moon’s. You only need worry about Keith Moon.

He is wearing a jester’s outfit. That’s not a coincidence. I can find you 1000 pictures of him in a jesters outfit in about 30 seconds. Jesters like to show off and have fun. Keith Moon for better or worse pretty much tried to do that 24-7 for a little over 32 years. He wasn’t better off from it, but the world was.

Led Zeppelin was a joke name that in some way came from Keith Moon.

Jimmy Page would have killed many people in Satanic fashion to get Keith Moon in his band.

Many people say there were three amazing guitarists in the Yardbirds. It is true. It makes me mad though because 99% of the best Yardbirds studio recorded guitar work was done by Jeff Beck.

I think that Jeff Beck towers over the other two guitarists, but he can not sing, and he doesn’t particularly care about making money. He just plays guitar in whatever style he feels like. Mostly he feels like tuning up his hot rods.

Jeff Beck was dying to have Keith Moon in his band.

Keith Moon was in the Who and was never going to leave, but liked to have fun.

This song is just some classical number that Jeff Beck is playing sort of traditionally but well with no drumming accompaniment. It is fine. There was a drummer there.

His name will not be on the credits. It will say that the drummer is “you know who,” which was a joke from the jester mentioning what band he was really in.

Hopefully, right now you are at the 1:30 mark.

One minute and thirty seconds is the maximum amount of time humanly possible to keep Keith Moon from showing off and having fun.

He’s just hit his limit and let’s out an ungodly scream.

That’s when all of the fun happened forever for everyone.

Because after that scream all kinds of chaos breaks out, but there is zero doubt who is the most chaotic, funny, one kicking the most ass.

It does not matter whether you think Jeff Beck is better or worse than Jimmy Page. It doesn’t matter what happened after the 1:30 mark for any band anywhere after that.

It doesn’t matter who the best band was after that.

All you must know is that Keith Moon died to show off and let you have fun for the rest of your life.

Don’t be him. No one can be him. Learn from his mistakes, but have fun.

 

 

 

No Keith Moon. No Fun.

I do not think this was subtle, but it was fun.

Proceed to have fun in whatever way you want. Keith Moon wanted you to.