T-Rex is what every live performer should be
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I've had T-Rex on the brain recently after repeated watchings of Hot Fuzz (in my mind the best comedy movie in at least 10 years), which prominently features a Fratellis cover of Solid Gold Easy Action. Then I learn that Marc Bolan had the role they gave to Jim Croce when they Americanized Life on Mars ("watch out for Minis.") Nothing, however, quite compares to the insane awesomeness of this clip:
8 Minutes of pure rockness, glam and decadent yet tough and precise—this is pretty much everything I love about music. Kudos to Chicago Reader scribe Miles Raymer for pointing to the clip. Raymer's review consists basically of asking "Do you want to start a band that sounds exactly like this?" I'd argue he's already in one: Mannequin Men, Chicago's finest glam-laced alt-rockers of the moment. I've raved to everyone about how awesome Mannequin Men is both live and on the band's 2007 album Fresh Rot, and the Chicago alt press agrees so much that Raymer joined the band last year. Their next album, Lose Your Illusion, Too, comes out in June. And I can say from experience, a Mannequin Men live show is not all that far off from this ideal.
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Stars are born not made. Bolan was definitely an original. Fantastic footage.
Great to come across this footage today. I was listening to T. Rex all weekend long.
Sorry can't view clip her in coffe house, but I would argue that clips from the Marc show in England towards the end of his career show a coked out, half assed version of a once vibrant man.
Love Bolan, and would even argue he ust have read the Rock n Roll rosetta stone to get most of it so right.