Bob Harris smiles benignly and said "Mock Rock" !!!

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I don't get it!

The history books had it he sneered after the performance of "Jet Boy" by the New York Dolls, "Mock Rock"

But there it is on the "Old Grey" compilation.

Is this the rewriting of history back to what actually happened, along the "Syd Barett had a perfectly normal conversation with Dick Clarke on Bandstand" lines?

― mark grout (mark grout), Sunday, 8 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

or was it Pat Boone, I can't remember.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:39 (nineteen years ago)

And they're miming, aren't they? IIRC. Was this usual for OGWT?

― bham (bham), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was not unknown.

(Dick Cavett I think it was)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 9 October 2006 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

Johnny Thunders looked like he should have been in the Senseless Things.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

He does look a bit freaked out, but he's not sneering.

I think that performance, even though it is mimed, is the highlight of that DVD.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

He looked like he thoroughly enjoyed it!

Oh, and also, the Otway/Barret was another highlight.

I'd add John Martyn, but that'd be boring of me, right?

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 10:34 (nineteen years ago)

what's with the verb tense?

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

It was late, I was on a laptop, and whatever.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

Plus, "Bug Pash for minor fixes to my thread titles month" was September.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

It was late, I was on a laptop, and whatever.

didn't mean to sound critical...it was just a departure that razor-sharp usage for which you are so well known

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Monday, 9 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

What is this, bug Mark Grout month (october)?

(don't worry about it)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 9 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

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