The 27 Club

The 27 club is a group of incredibly famous Rock n’ Roll stars. The people represented in this “club” have been forever etched in what makes up the epic history of rock. Basically the 27 club is made up of a substantial amount of extremely famous rock musicians with mutual lifestyles and strangely enough were all deceased by the time they were 27 years of age. There are many names involved that are considered to be part of it but the ones I consider and are most usually brought up (in chronological order) starting with first deceased would be Brian Jones the original founder and guitarist of the Rolling Stones he apparently drowned to death basically due to recklessness though this is widely disputed. After that the legendary Jimi Hendrix unfortunately was found deceased after choking on his own vomit from ingesting too many sleeping pills and apparently mixing with alcohol in his system although like most of the other deaths in the 27 club is disputed and uncertain to people. Shortly after Jimi Hendrix’s death Janis Joplin died and caused a stir with fans and the general 60’s music scene. Peculiarly enough after the deaths of two of the most famous musicians of the time Jimi Hendrix was found dead by his beloved girlfriend Pamela in the bathtub of his Paris home. When this occurred the cause of Death was never released publicly so naturally theories rapidly sprouted like that he faked his own death which was widely believed. Also believed that he became a heroin addict and simply overdosed. The one that would probably most believable is that he was out open night drinking heavily as he always did and just randomly died by essentially being reckless and belligerently drunk. The real reason was released years after his death by two close friends of Morrison’s. They said he was drinking heavily and tried heroin with Pam and had a heart attack due to the combination of heroin and alcohol. The last member of the 27 club is Kurt Cobain as everyone knows he supposedly committed suicide with a shotgun blast to the head. Though out of all these musicians death Cobain’s is the most disputed, Most people believe he killed himself while others think his wife Courtney Love killed him and set it up to look like suicide. There are large amounts of evidence that support this theory although I still believe that his death was self inflicted dude to his life long history of depression, hard drug use and other issues. The 27 club is simply a huge coincidence that becomes very interesting when you look into the details of these musicians deaths and lifestyle because they are eerily similar so it may not be a mere coincidence.

Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

One thing about music is the actual meanings of the songs and the story behind the songs. I recall Sir Paul McCartney once said something like the thing he loves about music is that anybody can interpret the lyrics however they want to. So what he is essentially saying is sometimes a song has a certain meaning but doesn't necessarily mean it has to mean that to everyone else so interpretation is one of the fine aspects of music. I will analyze a couple songs both Beatles songs the first being “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", the second song off Rubber Soul one of my favorite Beatles albums. The song explains John Lennon’s night with a girl telling he once had a girl or she once had him starting off with a wise crack. She tells him to stay and shows him her apartment decorated in Norwegian wood which was a cheap type of wood that people would decorate their houses with at the time and pass off as high quality “Norwegian wood” She says isn’t it good?, Norwegian wood. They talk for a long time and eventually she needs to head to sleep because she has work in the morning. Well John being john is frustrated mainly because he didn’t get any action and stayed up all night expecting something (which is my interpretation). He wakes up and finds her to be gone so he says so I lit a fire isn’t it good?, Norwegian wood. He burned her decorative wood furniture to merely spite her. John was an expert at lyricism and was wise, expressed jealousy and cleverness with his songs. John claimed this was a true story although Paul mentioned that he doesn’t believe it and says it just one of john made up stories and imagination which he makes reality.

Music

There’s just something about music that sparks my enthusiasm there never time where I’m ignoring or taking music for granted. It’s easier to dig it and let it sink in, each generation and decade is defined by a certain genre or style. This is prevalent so much so that it becomes the style of society. It has been with us since the beginning of humanity though nothing scares me more than what today’s music has become. The current mainstream rap and pop music absolutely disgusts me. Honestly what’s going to happen when my generation are grandfathers and grandmothers and listening to music about almost nothing but cars, money, drinking, drugs, being players and basically being unnecessarily confrontational summing up to negative music. That’s the trait of this music that aggravates me the most is the negativity and aggressiveness that is so redundant. It is hard to find teenagers man young men now that listen to classic rock and other varieties of music and agree with the stereotypical parental opinion of today’s music. I do want not want to be taken the wrong way; I thoroughly enjoy certain types of rap and hip hop mainly 90’s. The difference between today’s and past generations rap is that current rap is extremely lazy, it’s so obvious that these rappers aren’t taking much time actually developing this music with terrible lyrics and repetitive synthetic drumbeats resulting to be simply boring and mediocre. Though I’m not manically worried about the wasting of music because in the wise words of John Lennon he asks “Don’t ya know it’s gonna be? Alright!”