Sunday, May 08, 2005

Happy Mother's Day!


Moms are cool.
Some rock bands are cool.
Rock bands that dress like moms?
Very very cool.
To celebrate this Mother's Day, Route 1 pays tribute to the classic Jerry Schatzberg photo for the Rolling Stones' "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow" single from THE GREATEST YEAR EVER *.
The song is an often overlooked classic in the band's catalog (full of loud-to-soft dynamics and discordant "wall of sound" guitars... it sounds like something the Jesus and Mary Chain might cook up).
The photo is dead classic.
Brian Jones actually looks hot. Sort of. Kind of. Or not. Maybe. But the point of all this is: Sometimes, you have to do something seemingly uncool to reach TRUE COOL STATUS.
For example, dressing up like a chick if you are in an all-guy, 1960s rock band. That's just so cool.
(* It's 1966! England won the World Cup! Sweden's Margareta Arvidsson won Miss Universe! Oh yeah... and I was born!)