Who are rock's winos?
Posted by Brookster on 31 May 2008 - 9:21pm.
Evening all. New boy here, so go easy.
Which performers, in the history of rock 'n' roll, would not look out of place on a park bench with a bottle of strong cider, hurling obscenities at innocent passers-by?
Here's a few to start us off:
David Crosby and Harry Nilsson are probably shoe-ins here. Late-period Jim Morrison looks like he'd enjoy a bottle of Ace Cider and a roll-up, as does Brian Wilson, frankly at any point in time since the 70s.
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There's only one possible winner...
Mr MacGowan.
i was going to say
Me and shane mcgowan could take that lot of yanks on.
I did get quite tiddly pom pom with shane and what turned out to be elvis costellos wife one night. BEFORE THE GIG. I remember a very few facts. Shane could only order "white stuff" which the barman and I interpreted as vodka or gin. And elvis's wife to be (kate?) fell off stage into the audience at the start of the very first song of the pogues set. Pogue mahone they were in those days.bass player or not!!
Other great boozers I have seen: cocker, j. Richards, k.
In a tag boozling contest, we brits would muller the septics! And have an amusing anecdote to share with the bar. Hurrah for us!! Something to be proud of.
I guess that was ...
... Caitlin O'Riodan. Hard to imagine Diana Krall hog-whimpering drunk at a Pogues gig.
No but
...in those days it was hard to imagine Elvis Costello pretending to be Frank Sinatra with Burt Bacharach conducting the orchestra.
Sitting on a park bench
Eyeing little girls with bad intent
Aaaayyeee...yougotfiftypence
Aaaayyeee...yougotfiftypencemate?
Junior coming up on the rails...or should that be off the rails
Has to be included here I feel
oh yes!
Mr smith is in the first team.
I'm not sure if it was the booze,
or just his staggering level of vocal aggression, but I remember watching Roger Chapman perform and thinking I'd rather he stayed ON the bench and not stagger to his feet and lurch at me:
Oh and twenny Rothmans
Here's a new resident of the chatsworth estate. Further to the idea there's a website for everything this image is apparently "available as a poster" presumably for fans of tracky wearing White Ice drinkers.
Thurs night is sing a long night £5 a Pie and a Pint
Run for your lives the bubbly landlady is about to get up and do her "turn" on the karaoke..
That's not very gentlemanly
She looks fine, surely.
Indeed.
Her tonsils are welcome round here.
Nudge, Nudge
Wink, Wink
Don't get me wrong
I'm not saying BT is a drinker (and anything less them fragrant) just that all these sockless imbibers will need somewhere to hang out and Ms T is the ideal guvnor of such establisment.
Big Issue!
http://www.sticks-stones.net/images/neil1.jpg
I'm not sure which is scarier. . .
the smile or the shirt:
Barstool Blues
Strewth.
You wouldn't want Neil helping himself to something sturdy from your Snap-On cabinet, and if he did, you wouldn't turn your back on him.
Isn't that a promo shot
for The Shining: The Musical?
Drink! Feck! Girls!
Feel the funk
Wanna see my mothership?
Get on up, like a sex machine:
Wichita Psycho
That's what happens
when you confuse the phone line with the 32KV power line, 30 feet up on a pole in the middle of nowhere.
Either that. . .
or he was well and truly rhinestoned.
You finished with that travelcard, mate?
...etc, etc...
Likes a Pint with the Sunday Papers
Excuse my ignorance
I've no idea who that is.
Judging only from the nose. . .
could it be Joe Jackson?
it is
My researches reveal that he had a single called 'Sunday Papers' - the clue's in the title. Apparently he's campaigned against the smoking ban too, which also fits with the photo.
oopps!
I thought it was Nick Hornby or alan magee
It's Joe,
he's your man.
Joe likes a fag
He was a rep for FOREST - the pro-smoking lobby - for a while, and left New York because he couldn't smoke anywhere. Now he's equally stuffed in Portsmouth.
THE SINGER IN UGLY RUMOURS...
.... looks a bit on his uppers nowadays and has taken to bothering passers by with all sorts of quasi-religious guff. It's sad but these things happen.
http://www.contactmusic.com/photos.nsf/main/red_bull_air_race_18_wenn148...
That's nothing.
You want to see some of the other members of that band these days. Good grief.