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Al Yankovic
Has this guy ever done anything bad? I've never heard of it,
but wouldn't it be great if he did? Weird Al arrested for shooting
up his ex-wife's Porsche, or busted with a brick of coke? There
would hopefully be a mug shot with him unshaven, eyes red and blearier
than Kid Rock at dawn, and maybe some scabbed over scratches across one
cheek. Now that would be funny. Unfortunately it'll probably
never happen, he seems too savvy about his career to ruin it with
something like that. As for the name, he was born Alfred Matthew Yankovic, and hasn't gone
too far afield. Yes it's an eponymous name, but he's weird, and
his name is Al Yankovic. Plus since his image is a polka-playing nerd,
if he'd been born "Fabian Straver" he'd have had to change it
to something like "Yankovic" anyway. Yes
Prog rock, for those of us young enough to have missed it, was a
transitional form of music, adding keyboards, synthesizers and layered
vocals to the older style of straight guitar, bass, drums, lead
singer. Critics were generally harsh and unforgiving of this new
musical style, and that was back when people actually cared what rock
critics said, before the total splintering of popular music into the
dozens of autonomous enclaves that we see today. The name is nothing sneaky or tricky. The band wanted something
short, direct, and memorable. It's not code for their favorite
drug cocktail, or their initials, or an inside joke. It is what it
is. A boring story, but an adequate name. |
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