Thursday, August 9, 2018

To old to rock 'n' roll?

From the Interweb:  Managers of a German nursing home began to panic when they couldn’t find a pair of elderly friends anywhere on the grounds. Police later discovered the men “disoriented and dazed”— at a heavy metal festival.

The unidentified pals left the home in the rural Dithmarschen district and likely hitchhiked and took public transit to travel 25 miles to the Wacken Open Air festival near Hamburg. The headbangers’ event is touted as the biggest metal festival in the world.

Festival organizers apparently loved their escapade and paid homage to the aging metalheads —  by noting on the event’s Twitter site that there’s “no discrimination” against seniors ... “because you’re never too old to rock.”

The two were escorted back to their nursing home.

Tull's song, however, doesn't have the same happy ending:

So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.

And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.


Carpe diem Life,
Have a great weekend,
David Kuhn

















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