Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Good Lord, I'm Getting Old

I know who Ratt* is and my contemporaries are beginning to worry about cholesterol.

This, apparently, is known as Butt Rock.

* - Incidentally, Ratt is just about the only 80s metal band that I really wanted to see in concert, but never did. Dio, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Poison, Dokken, and many others yes. Ratt, sadly, no.

10 comments:

Kelly the little black dog said...

Butt rock? I'm not sure Ratt is in the same category as Foo Fighters and Creed.

By the way, thanks again for driving the Iron Maiden concert. The one I missed that I really wish I'd seen was Judas Priest.

Jeff Miller said...

Ratt would not come under the category of Butt Rock. Stephen Pearcy does not have the constipated sound that Butt Rock get's it's name from.

Foxfier said...

I love the 80s, but I have an urge to push their hair out of their eyes......

Foxfier said...

(BTW- Papa Roach has dang fine showmanship. Saw them at Smoke Out in... probably '03, very impressive.)

tim eisele said...

On getting old:

"I used to be 'with it', but then they changed what 'it' was. Now, what I'm 'with' isn't 'it', and what's 'it' is strange and frightening. And it'll happen to you, too!" - Abe Simpson

(a note: I was never really "with it" in the first place. I always liked classical music, and my father used to tell me I was "born an old man". My father was never "with it" either - he says that in high school, he was told "You're so square, you're a cube!")

K T Cat said...

Kelly, the Iron Maiden concert will be a fond memory forever for me, too. Err, well, as long as we both have memories.

:-)

K T Cat said...

Jeff, there are so many definitions for Butt Rock over at Urban Dictionary that it seems that everything is Butt Rock. I think I like your definition best. A lot of modern heavy metal does sound like someone with a low voice passing a stone.

K T Cat said...

Foxie, I was considering going to a Ratt concert when they came to a local Indian casino, but decided against it.

K T Cat said...

Tim, I've been told the same thing. I love 50s swing music and regularly cook to the sounds of Louis Prima.

:-)

Dean said...

Exempt Foo Fighters.

My nephews call over-the-top, posturing groups like Creed, "nyaaaah" as that is the sound they end all their lines with.