'Burning Out His Fuse Up Here Alone'

By popular demand: William Shatner's preposterous live cover of Elton John's "Rocket Man." Can you believe the 70s? The ambitious art! The smoking wherever you damn well pleased! The willingness of large crowds to indulge drug-induced madness! We'll say it again: we were born much too late.

After the jump, the sad degree to which public benders have fallen.

Apr 16, 2008 · posted by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood · Link · 15 Responses
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  • Comments (15)

    No. 1 jujubees says:

    This may be the closest we ever get to some kind of virtual hug. Let's see you do that, Scarlet. This is the highlight of my day. What a shitty day.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 1:09 pm
    No. 2 janice says:

    Thank you, Cord. Just, thank you. That made my day.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 1:13 pm
    No. 3 maria says:

    Yea! I just had the MIT guy in the office fix my speakers…just for this!

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 1:14 pm
    No. 4 jujubees says:

    I think Cords hitting the happy pipe to be so generous. I had to watch it 3 times.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 1:14 pm
    No. 5 stl says:

    Check out Stewie Griffin's version and compare the two.

    Well done, Billy!

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 1:23 pm
    No. 6 OriginalWonk says:

    Karen Black is the original wonk eye and a Scientologist, to boot.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 2:56 pm
    No. 7 stopthemadness says:

    Oh lord, the Stewie Griffin version is teh hilarious.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 3:11 pm
    No. 8 Farah says:

    dear god this is brilliant :)

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 3:15 pm
    No. 9 Mr. T says:

    The 70's were an interesting time. In some ways they were a let down from the 60's but you still had freedom and the police were not as severe as they are today. My goodness, my sister drove drunk, had an accident (no one was hurt) and got away with it! I got stopped by the cops once, had a suspicious herb present in the car and got away with it. People could smoke cigars at work and no one said a word about it. Those were the days indeed.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 3:39 pm
    No. 10 jujubees says:

    Smoking and drinking at work rocks. I miss those days. But then again I was working at a strip club. Waitress, not dancer. But it was the late 80's and not the 70's.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 3:45 pm
    No. 11 SaveMeJeebus says:

    The Shatner rules..THE….world. (Gotta say it with the signature pauses and emphasis).

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 4:36 pm
    No. 12 Frowny McBeard says:

    I'd still like to see his interpretation of My Humps.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 4:46 pm
    No. 13 stopthemadness says:

    frowny, it would have to be pretty good to beat alanis' ironic take.

    Posted: Apr 16, 2008 at 6:37 pm
    No. 14 queencrone says:

    The 70's were so wonderful. The 60's were really
    the best like Mr. T said. But really, I have never felt so free and alive and happy as I was in the 70's. The ME generation. There was a great feeling in the air, and it can't be copied, or imitated.

    And the Doobie Brothers were great, then soon they changed and got Michael McDonald. They were still a great group with a good sound, but they weren't the "Doobie Brothers" any more.

    But you know what, I like the times now.

    We didn't have cell phones, (or even cordless phones.) We didn't have laptops or celebrity gossip blogs or any convenient computer things, no atm cards. We didn't have cable t.v.

    Maybe I think that the 70s were so happy and free because I WAS young and happy and free.

    Back in the 70s, the beach was an unending expanse of sand and surf. The world was waiting to be explored. No footprints lay in the sand before me.

    The beach has now been explored, footprints are all over but it is a very comfortable place, with it's limitations that I can accept, and it's familiar beauty that I love and am comforted by.

    Good LORD. I hate when I get like this.

    I had a big huge crush on Captain Kirk. He was turned on by easily by the unusual female.

    Posted: Apr 17, 2008 at 12:11 am
    No. 15 Mr. T says:

    God bless you queencrone.

    Posted: Apr 17, 2008 at 12:18 pm
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