{"id":99,"date":"2005-12-23T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=99"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T22:57:05","slug":"rubber-room-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/12\/23\/rubber-room-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubber Room Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Do<\/p>\n

This sardonic cautionary tale joins my earlier opus to dangerous dancing, “The Slam” (as yet unpresented on AYoS).<\/p>\n

One of the great things about having been around more or less at the beginning of the punk thing in LA is that I never felt I had to buy into anyone else’s vision of punk — so I never felt compelled to dive into a slam pit or jump off a p.a. tower.<\/p>\n

The way I looked at it — the first person who jumped off a p.a. tower — maybe that <\/span>was punk (and perhaps fatal). But the second guy who did it was just a poseur — and a stupid one at that.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, after I first put the ‘studio version’ of this song on the web, I heard from a few people who saw (or knew the victims of) very unfortunate incidents — so I guess I should point out that engaging in a moment of stupidity and ending up brain damaged is not always a laughing matter. I’d like to think that today’s youth has learned a thing or two — but just in case — Don’t<\/span> try this in your<\/span> century, kids.<\/p>\n

Today’s acoustic version:<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Full version:<\/span><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Rubber_Room_Rock_1\/RubberRoomRock.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n


\nRUBBER ROOM ROCK<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I used to twist and do the jerk
\nthey don’t let me do that no more
\nnow all I do is do the worm
\nin my straight jacket down on the floor<\/p>\n

but I still rock<\/span>
\nI still rrock<\/span>
\nI do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span>
\nOh yea I rock<\/span>
\nI still rock<\/span>
\nI do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span><\/p>\n

Used to slam and bang my head
\nten thousand stage dives or more
\ndove forty feet from a PA tower
\nand went three feet into the floor<\/p>\n

But I still rock
\nyeah I rock . . .<\/p>\n

None of my friends are no fun no more
\nthey just sit in the dayroom and stare at the floor
\nthey come back from the lab with rings round their eyes
\ntherapy’s so expensive — they lobotomize<\/p>\n

But they still rock<\/span>
\noh yeah we rock<\/span>
\nwe do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span>
\nOh sure we rock<\/span>
\nunh hunh we rock<\/span>
\nwe do the Rubber Room Rock<\/span><\/p>\n

(C)1986, TK Major<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This sardonic cautionary tale joins my earlier opus to dangerous dancing, “The Slam” (as yet unpresented on AYoS). One of the great things about having been around more or less at the beginning of the punk thing in LA is that I never felt I had to buy into anyone else’s vision of punk — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[958,989,892,987,988],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}