"He's famous cos he's dead."
You've heard it before. I've heard it before in regards to:
John Bonham
Keith Moon
Cliff Burton
And probably lots of others, so I just wanna set the record straight here. John Bonham was the greatest drummer of all time. Cliff Burton was the greatest bassist of all time. End of discussion.
Keith Moon? My opinion of the Who is kind of distorted because of the fact that they're all a bunch of dicks, but he was a good drummer. Besides, the Who were collectively on the receiving end of the most epic burn in the history of music, so hey.
What was that burn? You can find the full version somewhere on Cracked.com, but here's the condensed version, complete with the jokes that I stole from that site:
See, Keith Moon and John Entwistle (bass) were at a party. So was this well-known supertalented session guitarist, who we'll just call J for now. J tells the Who guys about a band that he's putting together with a well-known supertalented session bassist/keyboardist. The band will feature some skinny long-haired hippies with tight pants and open shirts singing songs in falsetto about orcs invading Middle-Earth. The Who guys, being, as I said before, dicks, respond:
"That'll go down like a lead zeppelin." Meaning it'll crash and burn.
Our guitarist, J(immy Page), goes to practice the next day and says, "Guys! I got a name for our band!"
The Who who? All hail Led Zeppelin.
Anyway, returning to the original purpose of this rant, which is basically to get a few more digs in at a dead man (really, you think I'd be above this)...
"He's famous cos he's dead" absolutely applies to Kurt Cobain. Sorry. Again, no respect for suicides. None whatsoever. Believe me, I'd much rather he hadn't blown his brains out so he and his band could be relegated to the dust heap of music history, but because he was grunge's martyr, we're stuck with that crap now.
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