Rod Stewart
Smiler
Every picture tells a story
(Thanks to “Smiler” for links.)
Yes, yes, I know full well that Roderick’s work is freely available in any media format you could care to mention. But I’ve re-acquired an almost visceral appetite for vinyl and am thoroughly enjoying the ability to mix and re-order tracks to my preference.
On Smiler, the beat switches effortlessly from the driving (sic) pulse of the John/Taupin “Let me be your car” to Dylan’s “Girl from the North Country”.
Then on EPTAS (one of a short range of adage-based titles, such as “Never a dull moment”) Kenny Jones’ semi drum solo on “(I know) I’m losing you” sits congruously (no double-negatives here!) with another Dylan tribute “Tomorrow is such a long time”.
I guest blogged elsewhere about having seen Mr.S. last year and paid for a seat which I occupied for all of three seconds, before he bounded on stage and the world stood up as one, never to return to sedentary mode.
Prior to this, the video screens were showing footage of, among other things, the man himself ironing one of his frilly shirts. Now the stories of his parsimony are legion, but I reckon even he has better things to do with his time. But this scene of domestic normality prompted the three harridans behind me to discuss what they’d expect in return for performing this chore for him.
Honestly, it was like having the script for a pr0n film being read to you. I was half worried about being used as a sex slave when the lights went down! Then I noticed that one of the harridans wasn’t actually too bad-looking, when I turned round to give them a cheesy grin and … No, No, back to the story.
The band included a 6’ blonde saxophonist, wearing a red leather what I’m reliably informed is called a “fanny pelmet” (British? American?). That certainly shut the harridans up when she sashayed down amongst the audience in the wind-up to the finale. My god, I could have strayed …
Ah well, reverie over, back to the decks. Looks like they need a damn good holy-stoning after all this burning.
# posted by Mr.D. @ 9:09 AM
Drinking and Driving (but clearly not simultaneously)
