Every Rock star has an Ideal Iconic Death Age (or IIDA), a specific time in their career when their death would have the most iconic resonance. Generally the longer a Rock star lives, the less iconic they are. 27 years of age seems to be the exact right number for alot of our Rock stars. Cobain, Hendrix, Morrison, Joplin all cashed in their chips at this age. 27 seems to be the age where you are still almost considered young, but also have acheived enough to have produced the material need to hold the attention of Rock fans.
Ofcourse this age varies from one rock star to the next. John Lennon for instance, if he would have died at 27 we would have no ‘I am the Walrus’ ‘Come Together’ ‘Revolution’ or ‘Imagine’. Then again the world never would have heard of Yoko Ono either.
You have not yet truly had your face ground in the crunchy underwear that is life.
yoko ono is awesome. you a dipshit.
You have not yet truly had your face ground in the crunchy underwear gravel that is life The Darkness.
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one of the best perks of being an American is you don’t have to care about the Darkness.
...or, interestingly enough, The Killers. :-(
if only wagemann had died at 27
ideal iconic death age
How old are you right now PEW, 38? Better get cracking.
x-post DAMMIT VAHID
no jeb fuckley, no kwedibiwity
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this would be an interesting topic for a blog post
Jeb Fuckley is rather inspired, I think. Cheers.
all the best rock stars go up to 11.
Let’s put on Killing Joke = Night Time. Who says Alex in NYC has to know?
...up to 11, man. Even a Negativland CD I listened to tonight talked about “Eleven”: “Escape from Noise”.
“I hate Bowie! In ‘All The Young Dudes’, he says ”you should die when you’re twenty-five“. D’you know how old he is? He’s fucking thirty! Well, twenty-nine. He’s a liar.”