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I know the reviews have been fairly good for this tour, but I can't watch Steven Tyler perform anymore without thinking of burgers and Idols. Ugh...

Gotta agree, his stint on the hated/dreaded AI and those cheesy burger king ads ruined (what was left of) his street cred, for me anyway... I hope, for his sake, that he was paid a lot of money for these... buc buc

What're ya talkin' about? Sixty-four-year-old millionaires are always hanging around Burger King, getting up to all sorts of hijinks.

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I know the reviews have been fairly good for this tour, but I can't watch Steven Tyler perform anymore without thinking of burgers and Idols. Ugh...

Gotta agree, his stint on the hated/dreaded AI and those cheesy burger king ads ruined (what was left of) his street cred, for me anyway... I hope, for his sake, that he was paid a lot of money for these... buc buc

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I know the reviews have been fairly good for this tour, but I can't watch Steven Tyler perform anymore without thinking of burgers and Idols. Ugh...

Gotta agree, his stint on the hated/dreaded AI and those cheesy burger king ads ruined (what was left of) his street cred, for me anyway... I hope, for his sake, that he was paid a lot of money for these... buc buc

What do you mean 'what was left of his street cred?' That's like saying Jagger ruined what was left of his street cred by collaborating with Dave Stewart and allowing himself and the Stones to be directed by Martin Scorsese, because Steven Tyler & Co. have been turning out cheesy burger king type product since the late 80s (Douche Bags Like A Lady, etc.).

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I read an interviewer ask Courtney Love, "If you had to choose to do only one thing, would it be acting or music?" Love answered, "Music. Every actor I've known wishes he could have been a musician. I've never met a musician who wished he were in actor."

Oh? That just means she's never met Mick Jagger.

An even better example is Elvis the pelvis.

You have to wonder if the post-military Elvis went in to film full time as a sort of semi-retirement option that would still keep him in the public eye as well as his mansion--because he must certainly have been aware of how the army neutered his rock-n-roll rebel image, and his most devoted fans knew it, too. When Elvis died, John Lennon famously commented, "Elvis died the day he went into the army."

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I read an interviewer ask Courtney Love, "If you had to choose to do only one thing, would it be acting or music?" Love answered, "Music. Every actor I've known wishes he could have been a musician. I've never met a musician who wished he were in actor."

Oh? That just means she's never met Mick Jagger.

An even better example is Elvis the pelvis.

You have to wonder if the post-military Elvis went in to film full time as a sort of semi-retirement option that would still keep him in the public eye as well as his mansion--because he must certainly have been aware of how the army neutered his rock-n-roll rebel image, and his most devoted fans knew it, too. When Elvis died, John Lennon famously commented, "Elvis died the day he went into the army."

I read that Elvis' idols were Dean Martin and James Dean. Keeping in mind that there was no history to rock n roll, he had influences in Blues and Country, but to him, being a star was to be a crooner, and to do movies, which is exactly what he did starting in '56 with Love Me Tender, then Loving You and Jailhouse Rock the following year. I think the only think the army did, was to interrupt the flow of films for a couple of years.

edit: and who could forget King Creole in '58

True, but the advent of rock-n-roll, along with James Dean, created the market of the teenager, notably the rebellious type a la Blackboard Jungle, and Elvis was right there in the thick of it. Sure, he did movies in the beginning, but after the army, his music lost its bite--no more Hound Dogs and such. And what happened to the live performances? Because his 1968 television concert was billed as his "comeback". Being drafted into the army surely must have been a blow to his image, having to get his hair buzz-clipped and follow orders and all that.

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Photo taken at Giants Stadium, August 6, 1978. Worst concert I've ever attended. My friend, who was on a three-week pot-smoking binge at the time, couldn't even take it. Walked out after Ted Nugent and waited for me in the car. I still have the program somewhere. It says something about how Steven Tyler "commands the stage like the young Mick Jagger of long ago."