A question for Jim Morrison...

Rockmocker reader, F.P., has a question for Mr. Mojo Rising himself. He writes:
If there's a killer on the road and his brain is squirmin' like a toad, is this really the best time to take a long holiday and let your children play? Wouldn't this be a better time to, I don't know, keep the kids inside away from the road and cancel your holiday plans? At least the ones that involve traveling along that particular road?


Thanks for that fine question, F.P. The Lizard King left us with so many unanswered questions when he died in 1971. IF he died in 1971.


Read about the ghost of Jim Morrison here.
Lyrics to Riders on the Storm here.


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A question for Messrs. Frey and Henley...

Roughly how many debutantes are there in Houston, baby?


The Long Run lyrics here.
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A question for The Hollies...

re: Hey Carrie Anne
When we were at school our games were simple.
I played the janitor, you played a monitor.


What the hell kind of game is that?


Simple games:
1. Checkers
2. Candyland
3. Chutes and Ladders


More complex games:
1. Chess
2. Stratego
3. Janitor/Monitor (A role-playing game wherein a "schoolgirl" who mistakes a randy "maintenance man" for a truant student must chase him down and administer cloakroom discipline of a decidedly non-parochial nature.)


"You're so...so like a woman to me." 
I love that line. So like a woman, and yet....in actual fact, what? A yeti?


Lyrics to Hey Carrie Anne here.
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Hollies!  (1969, post Graham Nash)

Oh, Boston. Where do we begin?

How about here...

I looked out this morning 
and the sun was gone.
Turned on some music to start my day...

Let me get this right. You roll over in bed, peek out the window, and find that the sun is gone. Not "obscured by clouds." Not "not yet risen." But gone. The solar system has ceased to exist as its eponymous center is no longer present. Do you panic? You do not. Do you cry out, your face instantaneously frozen in a hideous death mask? Hardly. What you do do is put on some music to start your day. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how real rockers roll.

More Than a Feeling lyrics here.

Know this, Boston, this conversation is far from over.

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A couple questions for Golden Earring

About Radar Love...
First, why are your hands wet?
Second, you've been driving all night. It's now 4:30 in the morning and you are just now shifting gears? Dude, your transmission...never mind.

Four things I bet you didn't know about Golden Earring.

1. They're from the Netherlands.
2. Between 1965 and 2003, the band released 24 studio albums--and you thought all they ever sang was Radar Love and that When the Bullet Hits the Bone song. (I know I did.)
3. Their first #1 hit in the Netherlands was titled Dong Dong Diki Digi Dong.
4. Formed in 1961 and still performing with the same core lineup, they are considered the longest continuously performing band in rock and roll history. WFK? (I think I just coined that acronym--can you figure it out?)


BTW, that's Brenda Lee pictured above--coming on strong.


It's a fickle hellcat, rock and roll classicism. Why did the song Radar Love enter into that relatively small pantheon of songs deemed worthy of ad nauseum play on classic rock stations across America while millions of other perfectly fine songs do not?  MTV surely had a lot to do with it in this case. But Radar Love came out in '73--eight years before the network launched. Makes one ponder. Anyway, today the Rockmocker salutes Golden Earring, who, it turns out is not a one-hit (or even two-hit) wonder after all--not in the global rockosphere, at least. Still rockin' after 48 years. Kind of hard to mock, actually.


Who's up for a little Tuesday morning (pre-MTV) Radar Love ?
(If nothing else, watch the first 16 seconds. Really, classic.)




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