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When the twentysomething said "Geezer Rock" what immediately came to mind is Little Feat's "Old Folks Boogie".

Off our rockers, actin' crazy

With the right medication we won't be lazy

Doin' the old folks boogie

Down on the farm

Wheelchairs, they was locked arm in arm

Paired off pacemakers with matchin' alarms

Gives us jus' one more chance

To spin one more yarn

And you know that you're over the hill

When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

Doin' the old folks boogie

And boogie we will

'Cause to us the thought's as good as a thrill

Back at the home,

No time is your own,

Facillities there, they're all out on loan

The bank forclose, and your bankruptcy shows

And your credit creeps to an all-time low

So you know, that you're over the hill

When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

Try and get a rise from an atrophied muscle,

And the nerves in your thigh just quivers and fizzles

So you know, that you're over the hill

When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

 

When the twentysomething said "Geezer Rock" what immediately came to mind is Little Feat's "Old Folks Boogie".

Off our rockers, actin' crazy

With the right medication we won't be lazy

Doin' the old folks boogie

Down on the farm

Wheelchairs, they was locked arm in arm

Paired off pacemakers with matchin' alarms

Gives us jus' one more chance

To spin one more yarn

And you know that you're over the hill

When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

Doin' the old folks boogie

And boogie we will

'Cause to us the thought's as good as a thrill

Back at the home,

No time is your own,

Facillities there, they're all out on loan

The bank forclose, and your bankruptcy shows

And your credit creeps to an all-time low

So you know, that you're over the hill

When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

Try and get a rise from an atrophied muscle,

And the nerves in your thigh just quivers and fizzles

So you know, that you're over the hill

When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

 

Then there is always ZZ Top's Tube Steak Boogie.....

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Come on guys, "Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now"

Remind us, I still am the past as far as music goes............................for the most part,...........I am an old geezer [:P]

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I know that I am one of the odd men out on this but I always thought CC&N were not much more than an updated version of the Everly Bros. When Neil Young joined them they got a tad more listenable. I listen to them now and I really dont think they hold up to other bands of the era. JMHO. I actually think they are more Geezer easy listening rather then Geezer Rock.

Josh

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I know that I am one of the odd men out on this but I always thought CC&N were not much more than an updated version of the Everly Bros. When Neil Young joined them they got a tad more listenable. I listen to them now and I really dont think they hold up to other bands of the era. JMHO. I actually think they are more Geezer easy listening rather then Geezer Rock.

Whatever

Josh

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I told one of the twentysomething's at work that I was going to see a Crosby & Nash concert that night. She said "Who are they? Never heard of them". I said "They're part of Crosby Stills Nash and Young, you've heard of them haven't you" ? She thought for a moment and said "No, are they old?" I said " They were one of the supergroups in the seventies and early eighties." She said "Oh, Geezer Rock"

Just saw NY do the gezzer rock thing real well in December 2009.

Stills Young band infamous "Long May You Run" tour.

Saw Crosby and Nash in 1977 as I recall with a back up band kn own as "The Section" plus David Lyndley on slide.

Saw Crosby's first solo tour after prision. An excellently recorded King Biscuit CD of this tour can be found.

Saw all SNY reunion tours of past 10 years.

For over 30 years the coutless times I have seen the various iterations of Geezers CSNY they only a few times seemed less than rockers.

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