I was watching the UK Rock Hall of Fame ceremonies (yes, i'm a geek).

Inductees included Led Zepplin, Brian Wilson, and James Brown.

I was struck by the fact that all three were not only in attendance, but accepted thier awards. And Wilson & Brown perfomed!

By all rights, these three should be long gone. As in, dead.

Who else can we add to this noble group?

How does Chuck Berry keep going and going? He must be at least 80!

Try to top this one:

Keith Richards.


Herb

David Crosby?
Neil Young?

I recently read Peter Ames Carlin's biography of Brian Wilson, "Catch a Wave." Interesting guy to say the least! I enjoyed the book very much.

Andrew

ahem, Mr. Led Zepplin is 1/3 dead.

Any member of Motley Crue.

I thought there were 4 members of Led Zepplin. Did you know that Jimmy Page played on Donovan and Herman's Hermits?

Motley Crue is a good one, and Led Zeppelin is still 1/3 dead. Anyone else?

"Try to top this one:

Keith Richards."

I swear he IS dead! Just LOOK at him!

Rock n ROll keeps you alive, if the other stuff ( drugs and booze ) doesn't get you. It's kind of like a fountain of youth of sorts... it keeps old men at the teenage level..

staying out of small plains helps. WHAT I am amazed about is that there are so few KNOWN rock stars with aids.

Loretta Lynn.

(Not exactly a rock star I know, but have you seen her lately?)

Saw her on TV recently in some infomercial-somethingorother. Gotten *very* spooky looking over the years. Hard to believe that's the Motocross goddess.........

Paul McCartney sure looks old.

Not as old as Loretta looks tho...............

Tim says
staying out of small plains helps. WHAT I am amazed about is that there are so few KNOWN rock stars with aids.

Good point, but How many Rock stars have HIV today and have not gone public??? As long as you have MONEY, living with the disease is manageable. Look at Magic Johnson, how many years has it been since he broke the news?? David Bowie admits that he slept with Freddie Mercury on NUMEROUS occasions.EEEEW!! Ive never understood why women are always attracted to these dirty, STD carrying rock stars. On a side note, why in the world would anyone want to marry Pamela Anderson??? She has Hep C which is DEADLY and uncurable!! Is getting to have sex with Pamela Anderson really worth dying over?? Someone should ask Kid Rock that.

Here is a good one.......

OZZY OSBOURNE

"David Bowie admits that he slept with Freddie Mercury on NUMEROUS occasions."

What? I'm not saying it's false, but I have NEVER heard that.

"On a side note, why in the world would anyone want to marry Pamela Anderson??? She has Hep C which is DEADLY and uncurable!! Is getting to have sex with Pamela Anderson really worth dying over?? Someone should ask Kid Rock that."

Have you SEEN Kid Rock? The trailer park called, they want their village idiot back.

I delivered pizza to the Scorpions once after they had a concert ... and the hotel room was what one expected from them, girls galore in various stages of undress, the guitar player snorting coke off the coffee table (he was so nice, he offered me a line) ... booze and drugs and all that. The guys were real nice and all, but hell I wonder what they all have now, 15 years later? Will there be any more Freddie Mercurys?

Rumor has it, THATS why Kid and Pam got a divorce.
He caught Hep C from her, than threw her out the door. It makes sense, none of them are very bright!

It's a wonder the Simmons family does not have Hep XYZ or Herpes version 12 or something wierd considering their colorful pasts!!!!

I was gonna mention OZZY.

Look at him today.

Well he does have a damn fine personal gold buddah. Life is not all bad, when he can remember where it is!

Joamon says
It's a wonder the Simmons family does not have Hep XYZ or Herpes version 12 or something wierd considering their colorful pasts!!!!

Hey Joamon I would bet MILLIONS that Gene Simmons has AT LEAST HERPIES, probably more than just that. He makes Wilt Chamberlain's Scoring card look miniscule. And Im talking about BEDROOM SCORING!

I agree....I think he did the SLAM DUNK a few to many times....talking about Gene not Wilt....LOL

Now that's funny I don't care who ya are....Git-R-Done!!!LOL

Mayonnaise;

Good points, except - let's say a major or past rock star had it, it's likely he gave it to several people, at least ONE of whom would go public and seek " damages"..

Here's the thing with Freddie Mercury.. Who knows WHEN he got it. back in the 80's, it WAS a death sentence,as there wasn't much doctors could do. Nowadays, it's becommong more like a speed bump in the road. If the Virus doesn't go airborne ( GOD forbid) , I predict that HIV will go the way of Bubonic Plague within 30 years..

actually, the HIV virus is fairly difficult to transmit from person to person. There has to be a direct blood-to-blood transfer, even then the the newly contaminated blood (yours) must re-enter the bloodstream (as opposed to drying up outside your skin) and other conditions must exist. So anything short of a direct injection into the veins (even then, not a sure thing) is more likely to fail in causing a HIV transfer. The problem with HIV is that the circumstances for it to happens occurs often enough that its a matter of time the odds falls in your favor of getting infected. (sharing needles, unprotected sex). If HIV was spread around easily as food posioning, we'd ALL be dead now.

I'm off my HIV educating stump now. Also, I'm not a real doctor, but I sometimes play one on the internet.

"Here's the thing with Freddie Mercury.. Who knows WHEN he got it. back in the 80's, it WAS a death sentence,as there wasn't much doctors could do. Nowadays, it's becommong more like a speed bump in the road. If the Virus doesn't go airborne ( GOD forbid) , I predict that HIV will go the way of Bubonic Plague within 30 years.."

As long as we have developing nations with stigmas and stereotypes about safe sex, and rape and torture ... and without the medication, it won't go the way of the Bubonic plague ... it will continue to be an epidemic in places in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

The HIV virus, on average, takes 10-15 years to turn into full-blown AIDS. Once it is in that stage, the average life expectancy is 2-3 years. Freddie Mercury died in 1991, meaning that most likely he contacted it in the mid to late '70s, when NOBODY knew what the hell it was.

I would imagine (and hope) that today's rockstars, and everyone else for that matter, learned something from the 80s. While Skep is right that it is not THAT easy to transmit person-to-person, it DOES happen all too often. Also, the existence of other STD's makes it many many times easier to contact it.

Last night on one of the "entertainment" shows, it was reported that Kid Rock dropped Pamela Anderack because of Borat and Sasha Baron Cohen.

Hey Jealousy.

(BTW I wasn't watching, just listening on KOIN while driving)

John Popper before the gastric bypass.

Now see, that was a pretty civil, nice discussion with some great points made. I knew we could do it! Thanks!

Oh and the winners here are 1. Herb 2. Joamon and 3. Merkin; for first, getting my point (people surviving despite lifestyle choices) and also coming up with the most correct answers.

Here's another one I just thought of: Jerry Lee Lewis. Both for lifestyle, and also, he's nuts.