The Who Live at Leeds
(or, This Is Rock and Rock Will Love You!)
(or, This Is Rock and Rock Will Love You!)
Take the Who album Live at Leeds. In its original, 6-track, 37-minute form.
Listen to it. Feel it. Feel it roar and thunder over you.
This is the pure essence of Classic Rock.
This is not mere Punk. This is not rejecting Life. It is not rebelling against Life
It is LIVING Life, daring to really live.
This is the pure essence of Classic Rock, with all the fancy parts taken out, with all the feeling, all the dynamic range, all the glorious freedom and vibrant life intact.
Put this on. Crank it up as loud as your neighbors or housemates will allow.
Let it thunder over you.
And then- go out and create your own!
Add any fancy stuff you want!
For this is the pure, vital essence, minus the fancy stuff, of the greatest thing that music or the 20th Century ever had!
That spiced up and expanded upon everything from Gershwin to Pete Seeger to Coltrane to the harmonic experiments of The Beatles!
Let it thunder over you!
Don't analyze it! Feel it! Let it live in you!
And go out and create your own!
In movies with your phone, in painting, in whatever your chosen field is!
And you will learn how to really Live!
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson
P.S. The philosophy is in the fancy stuff. In a lot of art, you want to search for the philosophy first. Especially storytelling. But in a Classic Rock approach to anything, you get the feeling right first. Let it thunder over you. Don't worry about getting it 'right'- let it live in you! Let it flow through you! Let it be gloriously flawed! Let it really live!
Then you search out the philosophy.
P.P.S. THIS is Important: The final, important part of a Classic Rock approach to anything, what so many didn't do: when you are emotionally tired, REST Yourself so you don't crash! So you won't end up like Keith Moon!
*Rock Remains! And Rock Will Love You!*
It has gone into hiding, but Live at Leeds, Born to Run, and Like A Rolling Stone remain to show what it once was and can be again anytime you bring it to life!
Modern music has its rules, you must be politically correct.
Country has its country rules, rap has all kinds of rules.
There are so many things that you're not allowed to do or be in rap.
Pop has already been dismissed as old-fashioned and forgotten, though it is younger than Rock and Roll.
But Rock Remains to those who know it!
Rock Remains as long as someone listens to Born to Run and Live at Leeds!
They tried to tame it, to force it to sell its soul to become Punk or Metal or Grunge, to follow their rules, but Born to Run and Live at Leeds remain to demonstrate the original!
Metal and Punk and Grunge have limits! Rock does not! There are things that Punk is not allowed to do! There are things that Grunge is not allowed to do! There are things that Metal is not allowed to do! Rock can do anything you want it to!
Punk and Metal and Grunge are not allowed to laugh or smile for joy! There are so many things that Punk is not allowed to do!
Rock can smile for joy! Rock can laugh! Rock can soar among the stars! Rock has no limits! Rock can go anywhere you want it to!
Rock Remains!
All it needs is You to bring it to life!
Listen to it! Crank it up! Sing it! Air guitar it! Let it show you how to really live!
Let it show you that Life is for the Politically Incorrect!
No matter how many times you are Politically Incorrect to the Republicans for being a Liberal, Rock will still love you!
No matter whose Politically Correct rules you broke, Rep. or Dem. or Rap, Rock will still love you!
I broke every politically correct rule of the Republicans and the Rappers, some of those of my own Democrats, and some politically correct rules that only we autistics are aware of (and whose rules I still haven't figured out), and Rock Still loves me!
Rock will still Love You!
Rock Remains!
And Rock Will Love You, Whoever You Are!