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"Rock Dinosaurs"

The Rollin' Stones: four [or is it five] grandads campaigning on, strutting like grotesque scarecrows... surely it's reached the point where it's embarrassing, unsightly, and just a little bit, well, pathetic?

I thought Rock'n'Roll was about the rebellious tempest of youth; about 2-fingers at authority (whether you mean it or not); about creative destruction; about breaking images with iconoclastic flair; about choking on your own vomit and dying young... [okay, maybe not the last one].

But the Stones are still at it, with their new "Licks" tour [or whatever it's called], reliving songs they wrote 30 to 40 years ago. Aren't they bored of playing them by now?
They just look like wizened hags to me. Frightening. It's like they've been re-animated by some perverted necromancer.

And there's others: take Tom Jones, looking like a Botox-injected waxwork dummy, still trying to compete in the same market as kids young enough to be his great great grandchildren, and still thrusting that creaking pelvis in those oh-so tight [I need three nurses to help me get them on] jeans.

And the other day I saw KISS making a comeback. The face-paint used to hide their identities [for the purpose of "mystery"]; their image used to seriously unnerve parents - now it's just a hallowe'en pantomime concealing their sad and tired wrinkled faces.

Give it up guys. You've had your time, now skedaddle.
It ain't right. Or am I missing the point?

Personally I hate the Stones. I'd much rather listen to The Who, The Beatles, and early Genesis.

Oh and Pink Floyd are pretty lame too. A poor hybird of Genesis and The Who.

And the Stones sueing the Verve was pretty annoying too. Really a 'Rock' thing to do.

I thought this thread was going to be about the rock dinosaurs that can be seen at the Dinosaur Park.

But it wasn't but as Helen and Jim were in it, so I'll be alright.

Maybe it's just that mobile phone advert promoting the Rolling Stones' tour that gets on my wick, where everybody who hears one of Hag Richards' riffs suddenly starts strutting -

"Hey, the Stones are playing, the world is a sexy place.
Hey, the Stones are playing, hey look! a bevy of promiscuous chicks.
Hey, the Stones are playing, hey, I'm gonna get laid.
Hey, hey, [strut, strut]"

I dunno, there's something not right about old men trying to rock.

And the Gute. I hear he gets his mini-Gute out on stage.

And Wings Hauser.
Don' forget The Wings

I reckon this season of 24 will be resolved when Uncle Jim is about to push the big red button, when Bouncer leaps in the way, takes a bullet and short circuits the control pad, averting the war. Then Helen Daniels rises from the grave and fights President Jim to the death, before Keef flies through the door and beats up Helen with his trusty guitar. He then laughs raucously, then plays the opening riff to Satisfaction before the credits roll.

Yes

Jim Robinson?

My dad's going to see him at the SECC

Uncle Jim chopped her head off and now he's the President of the United States.