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Sudetenland Tales
Page 59
He leaned into it. Strummed harder. Sang louder. If he couldn’t sing them to their feet, he’d sing them to the tipping point. When Shirley rose and staggered triumphantly, the room exploded in cheers, half for the song, half for the bet.
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Codger Rock, Decrepit Rock, Geriatric Rock, a new genre.
It was a stunning lineup: The Rolling Bones. AC/CPR. The Grateful We’re Not Dead . and of course, Bruce
“The Sprainsteen.”
Promoters booking the geriatric shows were having difficulties you would easily imagine. Cancellations due to the artist’s illness was expected, but cancellations due to the audience’s illnesses was not.
They took to putting out vinyl LP’s, upping their pace after Ozzy Osbourne died the day after fronting Black Sabbath’s “last show.” Sales of the live LP went through the roof of nursing homes. ........ That is until the rumor-conspiracy theory started that Black Sabbath guitarist Terence “Geezer” Butler posted on Musk’s X that Black Sabbath would be doing their final tour in two months. The post was quickly taken down, but some screenshots were salvaged. The cynics opined that Ozzy’s death