I'm sure his style of drumming was once described as like "a mountain falling down a mountain".

But I could be wrong.

...daft BBC series 'Bonekickers' was recently dubbed in (I think) the Metro newspaper as "a national laughing stock". Criticism comes no more stinging than that!

As is often the case, Dylan has unimprovable metaphors. On the Rolling Thunder Revue volume of the Bootleg Series he perfroms a re-written version of Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You which includes the line, 'You came down on me like warm thunder.'

a couple of minutes ago I suddenly remembered Zappa's assertion that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Wrong, Frank, but highly entertaining nonetheless.

Someone once wrote a letter to Word saying that as each issue came out it was "becoming less like a magazine, and more like a conversation", which I always liked.

I remember someone describing listening to the Pixies as being like cycling backwards down a shark infested wind tunnel...That's stayed with me for quite a while

Tom Waits comes out with at least two brilliant similes per sentence, but I can't think of any at the moment.
So instead I'll just repeat one of my favourite rock-related quotes:
The late, great John Walters turned down the Sex Pistols for a Peel session. A former teacher, he explained that Johnny Rotten "...didn't look like the kind of boy you would trust to give out the scissors".

Of Tom Waits' voice : "...like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car".

And by Tom Waits:
"I started writing down people's conversations as they sat around the bar. When I put them together I found some music hiding in there."

"I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth"

And an introduction that he's used a few times and I heard at one of his recent Dublin shows - is it a simile? :

"Did you realize that the weasel and the ermine are the same animal? True! In the winter it's called weasel and in the summer it's called ermine. So if you see a girl wearing ermine, you can go up to her and say, 'I really like your weasel!' And I will come down and testify for you in court! I've done it before!"

I didn't see last night's Who Do You Think You Are (haven't seen any of them come to that; televised genealogy seems about appealing as as televised Olympics, or real geanealogy now that I think about it.)
Despite this, it's always worth reading Nancy Banks-Smith's TV reviews, and in today's she describes Kensit's jailbird grandad 'popping in and out of prison like a cuckoo clock.'

"didn't so much burn the candle at both ends as apply a blow torch to the middle."

I once heard someone who had been hit with the ugly stick described as having the following features:

"He has a face that looks like a Bulldog licking piss off a nettle"

....his voice was once described by a scribe in one of the many decent music tabloids (ah, Sounds.Remeber?) of the early 70s as "imagine the sound a sheep would make whilst having his balls cut off with a rusty knife". And this was compliment!