-Why did the Vietnam vet cross the road? -I don’t know, why? -You don’t know, because you weren’t there, man! That’s OK, we have a number of rock ‘n’ roll historians here to fill you in on the days of past scene glory, in case you weren’t there: - Tom Tom Club “Downtown Rockers” -Wayne County “Max’s Kansas City” -Stan Ridgeway “Talkin’ Wall of Voodoo Blues” -Mojo Nixon “Positively Bodie’s Parking Lot” -Neil Young “Buffalo Springfield Again” -Jonathan Richman “Velvet Underground” (not his band, but he was definitely there) -George Harrison “When We Was Fab” And the best of the bunch: -The Minutemen “History Lesson pt.2” https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63526#msg-63526 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:17:13 -0500 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63784#msg-63784 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63784#msg-63784 BCE Trouser Press Mon, 21 Feb 2022 05:48:28 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63783#msg-63783 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63783#msg-63783 [m.youtube.com]
You’ve been warned…

Speaking of Detroit, how factual/autobiographical is “Dum Dum Boys”?]]> MrFab Trouser Press Sun, 20 Feb 2022 02:46:07 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63557#msg-63557 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63557#msg-63557 -------------------------------------------------------
> Dude likens his own song to a dentist's drill, and yet he records it? I'm thinking he reacted to those five words that every mainstream pop star dreads hearing from a record company executive: "I don't hear a single."

and speaking of "I Don't Hear a Single" has anyone (except for about five people somewhere on this forum) heard The Major Labels song with that exact name?]]> dkhazzam Trouser Press Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:05:34 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63554#msg-63554 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63554#msg-63554 MrFab Trouser Press Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:01:25 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63551#msg-63551 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63551#msg-63551 Phil Lynott - “Talk In ‘79”

[Um…can we forget about Billy Joel again now?]]]> Five*Words Trouser Press Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:19:09 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63550#msg-63550 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63550#msg-63550
We weren’t there to see how they built the city, and they explain the process.

folks, I’m sorry. I have a really cornball, lowbrow sense of humor. Sometimes I just CAN’T help it.]]> Bip Trouser Press Mon, 20 Dec 2021 19:40:25 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63548#msg-63548 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63548#msg-63548 Delvin Trouser Press Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:17:03 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63547#msg-63547 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63547#msg-63547 Also, Alejandro Escovedo introduced Chelsea Hotel '79 when I saw him and it's very much first hand.
Also also, apparently Billy Joel wrote WDSAF after a conversation with Sean Lennon and his unnamed friend who said to BJ "You were a kid in the '50s, and everybody knows that nothing happened in the '50s" As he started naming people and events, he realised he had a (very bad) song on his hands, a song the guy himself has referred to as "a dentist's drill".]]> Aitch Trouser Press Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:18:50 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63541#msg-63541 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63541#msg-63541 Bip Trouser Press Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:05:23 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63539#msg-63539 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63539#msg-63539
Of course, any song that sucks as badly as that one probably is an elephant in the room.]]> Delvin Trouser Press Sat, 18 Dec 2021 16:00:35 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63538#msg-63538 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63538#msg-63538 breno Trouser Press Sat, 18 Dec 2021 15:58:42 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63535#msg-63535 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63535#msg-63535
“We didn’t start the fire”]]> Bip Trouser Press Sat, 18 Dec 2021 14:07:48 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63534#msg-63534 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63534#msg-63534 Delvin Trouser Press Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:16:33 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63533#msg-63533 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63533#msg-63533 -------------------------------------------------------
> "Monterey" – Eric Burdon & the Animals

Which reminds me of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock." Research reveals that she did not attend it, but it became the anthem anyhow. (Did any actual attendees write a song about it?)

The quite factually accurate "Walk on the Wild Side" might fit in here, too. Not about a music scene per se, but certainly music-adjacent.]]> MrFab Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:16:33 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63532#msg-63532 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63532#msg-63532 "Monterey" – Eric Burdon & the Animals]]> Delvin Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:38:31 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63531#msg-63531 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63531#msg-63531 Real Animal) is autobiographical, recounting his pursuit of his rock & roll dreams in the late 70s and 80s. There's also "Nuns Song," about his time in the Nuns, and "Sensitive Boys," which is about the True Believers.

He wasn't a studio musician, per se. But he did join Judy Nylon's band when he got to NYC. He told the story of his first gig with her at his ACL Hall of Fame induction - they played Max's Kansas City, and John Cale, Brian Eno and Chris Spedding were sitting at the front table. That's not intimidating at all.]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:33:18 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63530#msg-63530 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63530#msg-63530
Hmm, someone on the (ever-reliable!) Youtube claims that "It's actually a true story... He used to be a studio musician and hung with a lot of the early NY punks...including Sid Vicious." Maybe...]]> MrFab Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 11:26:00 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63529#msg-63529 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63529#msg-63529 Philippe Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:15:54 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63528#msg-63528 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63528#msg-63528 Every third song Ian Hunter ever wrote
Wilco - "Heavy Metal Drummer" (eh, maybe not - I just revisited the lyrics and it's more about Tweedy hanging out around the St. Louis music scene as a kid, nothing much about being a part of it)
Jonathan Richman - "Monologue About Bermuda"]]> breno Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 04:55:11 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63527#msg-63527 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63527#msg-63527
Only thing I can quickly come up with to add to your list: Just-Ice and
KRS-1’s “Going way back”.]]> Bip Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 04:48:56 -0600 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63526#msg-63526 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,63526,63526#msg-63526 -I don’t know, why?
-You don’t know, because you weren’t there, man!

That’s OK, we have a number of rock ‘n’ roll historians here to fill you in on the days of past scene glory, in case you weren’t there:

- Tom Tom Club “Downtown Rockers”
-Wayne County “Max’s Kansas City”
-Stan Ridgeway “Talkin’ Wall of Voodoo Blues”
-Mojo Nixon “Positively Bodie’s Parking Lot”
-Neil Young “Buffalo Springfield Again”
-Jonathan Richman “Velvet Underground” (not his band, but he was definitely there)
-George Harrison “When We Was Fab”

And the best of the bunch:

-The Minutemen “History Lesson pt.2”]]> MrFab Trouser Press Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:40:32 -0600