rockin' roads?
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: street names

Rock music's been around for half a century.  When I was a kid, there wasn't that much rock & roll music, you didn't hear it much, and it was constantly decried and belittled.  The people who enjoyed rock music in the '60s are now four decades older and to a good extent in charge of things.  We've got the power, daddyo! 

Sure, stupidity still rules:  Writers claim that the success of the Rock and Roll Cafe proves that rock is well-liked, rather than that Corporate Amerika will jump onto any and every bandwagon, and that the mindless masses will buy their ludicrous claims rather than think for themselves.  Yeah, rather.

But the point is that rock music is a lot more accepted these days.  Rock & roll is one of the big joys of people in our times.  Our lives may not totally revolve around rock and roll but then they don't revolve around past Presidents or flowering trees either.

There are fifty states in the U.S.A.  There are thousands of counties.  There are a heck of a lot of new subdivisions being developed each year.  Hasn't there been at least one developer who was either rich enough or loony enough to not care how the names of his new streets struck people, if not believing that rockly named streets would actually attract purchasers (let alone publicity)?

New York City renamed a street corner Joey Ramone Place.  Melbourne renamed a back lane ACDC Lane.  Berlin renamed a 1-¹/₂-mile formerly numbered street Frank-Zappa-Straße.  I've always taken the practice of honorary street namings to be an insult rather than an honor -- illustrating that the person or organization or whatever is not even worthy to have a street actually named for it but rather simply a pretend name (which doesn't actually serve as the address) for a block of one street out of a thousand. 

The Frank Zappa Street sounds like a real street and really renamed but still __ why aren't there hundreds more examples like this?  As "Brian Micklethwait" wrote in his

http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/culture/archives/2004/10/a_street_name_t.html blog several years ago, "Now that rock and roll is so respectable, there must be lots of other such roads, including some equally bizarre ones."  Yeah, one would sure figure so.  My on-line searching sure hasn't turned up examples however. 

There are a million new Pleasant Oak Ways and Crabtree Meadow Lanes going in each year in all the new subdivisions.  How about some Crucifucks or Mötley Crüe or even Beatles Streets?  Here's your chance to show me up.  Yeah, I'm ignorant and out-of-touch.  Are there rock-named streets out there, for bands or records or lyrics? 

Gee, I alphabetize differently than others here on the Web, don't I?  Yes, I alphabetize a list by personal last names, not by their first names.  I'm not so lazy as to ignore that there's a difference between people and bands. 

And you'll be happy to hear that I've gotten around to listing all my vinyl albums over the last year.  That makes it somewhat easier for me to find some stuff (which could be stuck together with other related groups.)  Not that I'll ever get around to posting all that info up here.

I'm reassured that my not having an e-mail address on my rock page for people to contact me with (to complain about something I've written) didn't cause any problem, as nobody's contacted me via this blog over the last week.

Oops, as I see from having just visited some Rotters Web-pages, I was confusing the Ruts with the Rotters.

It's interesting seeing how high my Web-page is listed in Google searches for some of these band names. When my page is sixth out of dozens of pages, when I've only listed that band without adding any specific comments about it, it's clear that the listings following mine are even more basic, simple lists of names. And I was afraid my page would appear to be worthless? :)

oops
Mood:  accident prone
Gee, I just found that one of my old links didn't work -- because I'd goofed up the preceding link -- and so all the intervening text didn't appear. Well, I've straightened that out. That's the affect that Amon Duul has, eh? :) I do like Amon Duul but that is not my normal taste in music.

albums or singles?
Now Playing: What does this mean?
Hey, I claimed that these were bands I owned albums of, yet most of my graphics are from 45-rpm sleeves: What's the story?

This is a rock Web-page. It doesn't play by the man's rules. Single sleeves were easier to scan. Don't read more into it.

Welcome
Mood:  celebratory
As Google has been listing this site for weeks, when doing a search for some of my band names which don't have many other Web-pages, I figured I'd allow you visitors a way to feedback, if you care to. Hey, man, that's groovy. I've had no idea so far as to how many visit this page or who or what anyone thinks. Now maybe I shall be enlightened a bit. At the same time, you can ask me to enlighten you some more about something you're wondering about. Fire away.