---
title: 'I Do Rock Hard, But Not That Hard'
date: '2005-03-24T10:46:27-05:00'
permalink: /i-do-rock-hard-but-not-that-hard/
tags:
    - blogging
    - 'random thoughts'
---

From my pal [BT](http://www.wombatfile.com), comes word of a dangerous ripple in the blog/reality interface. A couple of weeks ago, after my back-self-patting assertion of my general rockin’ status, BT generously [defined](/how_it_wen/) the quality of that rockitude:

> It is undeniable that you rock, possibly rocking harder than many so-called “Classic Rock” acts including but not limited to BTO, Rush, Foghat, and Cheap Trick. OK, maybe not Cheap Trick, but still, you have achieved a very high standard of rockage.

I was moved by this, moved sufficiently to [enthuse](/thanks/) about it the next day.

> Thanks, everybody, for the kind congrats. They mean a lot. Particularly being compared to Foghat. Man, I haven’t even thought about Foghat in a decade, at least.

Well, there are [consequences](http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7209581/foghat?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single1) to everything, and apparently that whole equal-and-opposite-reaction physics thingy obtains here in the blogosphere as well.

> Rod Price, lead guitarist and founding member of British rockers Foghat, died Tuesday in Wilton, New Hampshire, after suffering head trauma from an accidental fall down a stairway. He was fifty-seven years old.

Between me and BT, the culpability here is huge. BT has forsworn even *thinking* about any living classic rock acts for the duration of this warp in the web. I just want to go on record as saying that I don’t rock so much harder than any other rocking folk that the world should take it out on them.