Feel Like Making Free Throws
Aging rockers get a raw deal. Your fans are old and saggy, the new generation doesn't know your name, and if you get a reunion tour, what you could once do with utmost sincerity -- like wearing a cocksock or eating a bat -- starts to feel like self-parody. It takes a certain kind of unabashedness to keep on keeping on. Some do just fine -- William Shatner leaps to mind. Others (Cheap Trick, Jimmy Buffett) might as well start piling on the dirt.
We're not sure where Simon Kirke fits into all this, but we and perhaps a few hundred dedicated Penn students are about to find out. The former drummer for Free and Bad Company is set to play the halftime show at the Penn-Harvard men's basketball game this weekend. We'll let the press release take it from here:
Kirke, along with the University of Pennsylvania Band, will entertain the crowd at halftime with a medley of Bad Company songs, including "All Right Now!" Kirke will also be available to sign autographs of his new Drumming DVD: "Lessons from a Legend."
Washed-up nobody or distinguished class act? Hard to tell. But it can't be good that in four short years, Kirke has gone from "Merchants of Cool" (2002) to merchant of low-rent instructional DVDs.
Video, Pennsters! We want video!
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February 7th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
ok this is almost exciting for the Penn Band because they play “all right now” whenever Penn wins a game (it’s been a tradition since, well i’m assuming since the song came out). so to have one of the people who is responsible for this song playing it with them is somewhat exciting. although it’ll be hilarious if they lose the game and can’t even play the damn song at the end.
February 7th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
To be a nitpicker – “All Right Now” was by Free, Kirke’s first band.
Regardless, I’m sure the show will be spectacular.
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