{"id":244,"date":"2005-12-03T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/12\/03\/thats-rock-and-roll\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T22:02:41","slug":"thats-rock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/03\/thats-rock-and-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s rock and roll&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know this guy, he&#8217;s a classic rock fanatic.\u00c2\u00a0 He went to see Paul McCartney in Vegas.\u00c2\u00a0 He waxed rhapsodic about there not being any luxury boxes at the MGM Grand and how he won&#8217;t go to any venue that separates the winners from the losers.<br \/>He included a set list.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve got to tell you, I winced when he told me that &quot;I&#8217;ve Got A Feeling&quot; was the highlight of the night.\u00c2\u00a0 &quot;I&#8217;ve Got A Feeling&quot; is kind of like Brian Wilson&#8217;s &quot;&#8217;Til I Die&quot;, or Robbie Robertson&#8217;s &quot;Broken Arrow&quot;, not the single that gets all the airplay, but the track you always loved that you find out thirty years later everybody else loved too!<\/p>\n<p><em>I&#8217;ve got a feeling<br \/>A feeling deep inside<br \/>OH YEAH!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>THAT&#8217;S a McCartney moment.<\/p>\n<p>But, the reason I&#8217;m telling you all this is to set-up what&#8217;s next.\u00c2\u00a0 An e-mail this friend forwarded me, from a buddy who saw the band in Vegas.<br \/>This is rock and roll.\u00c2\u00a0 This is what Zemeckis tried to capture and failed in &quot;I Want To Hold Your Hand&quot;.\u00c2\u00a0 Make no mistake, rock and roll isn&#8217;t something on MTV, it&#8217;s not even a shared experience.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s something for you only.\u00c2\u00a0 That you don&#8217;t see in the newspaper, that you don&#8217;t read in &quot;Rolling Stone&quot;.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a moment when you tingle.<br \/>If I&#8217;d been there, I would have tingled too.<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>yeah,<br \/>i was on the craps table. me and 3 gangsta rappers<br \/>my roll winning, they wouldn&#8217;t let me quit<br \/>i saw paullie at a blackjack table 30 ft. away<br \/>i went to grab my chips to sit at that table which had only 2 chicks and him.<br \/>by the time i got there a guy beat me to the last opening<br \/>dude\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 it was 4:00 am and there was nobody around<br \/>i hovered for the next chair but who would leave that table?<br \/>i was 3 ft from the pope of rock and roll, the author of the bible<br \/>then a guard stepped between us, he was cool and said you might need to keep moving cause we don&#8217;t want to draw a crowd<br \/>i stepped back a few feet and just watched<br \/>i could hear everything he was saying and he was making sure that all at the table were not feeling intimidated<br \/>he was so fucking bad for it<br \/>after about ten min all the other dealers came around and he was done playing and just talked and laughed with all at the table and shook their hands and hugged the chicks<br \/>i love him<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know this guy, he&#8217;s a classic rock fanatic.\u00c2\u00a0 He went to see Paul McCartney in Vegas.\u00c2\u00a0 He waxed rhapsodic about there not being any luxury boxes at the MGM Grand and how he won&#8217;t go to any venue that separates the winners from the losers.He included a set list.\u00c2\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve got to tell 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