My 500th post: JEWS IN ROCK!

[asthmaticeog]

Bob Dylan
Joey Ramone
Ira Kaplan
David Lee Roth
Perry Farrell
All 3 Beastie Boys
Gene Simmons

Keep 'em coming, Lounge Lizards.

(BTW - perfomers only. Allowing for record executives, producers and agents makes it way too easy.)

[WillyBrandt]

1. James Brown

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. James Brown is jewish?

[asthmaticeog]

10. I, too, am skeptical of that claim.

[unblock]

14. you can tell by his looks. i mean, that nose!

[teach1st]

2. Kinky Friedman, of course...

Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys

http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/

[murielm99]

3. Congrats on your 500th post!

[Rocinante]

5. Geddy Lee

[Syrinx]

19. We used to call him Gary Lee Weinrib in the 'hood

:D

[VOX]

6. Al Kooper, Lou Reed, Carole King, Mike Bloomfield...

and Randy Newman (although he considers himself an atheist).

[unblock]

11. atheist? really?

doesn't he have a fair number of spiritual/god-affirming songs in his discography for an atheist?

[VOX]

38. Except when he's sick!

http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/08/24/newman/index1.html
"...Clearly, the Newmans weren't what you would call observant and the revelation of his Jewishness prompted in Randy a study of comparative religion that made him a devout atheist ("except when I'm sick"). But the awareness of his otherness (like the otherness he'd seen assigned to blacks in New Orleans) had a subversive effect on his schooling as well..."

[kalian]

7. Peculiar thread....

[jpgray]

8. Fagen of Steely Dan was Jewish, wasn't he? (nt)

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9. bruce springstein!

janis joplinsky
eric clapper
peter, paul, and mordechai
chad and jerry
joel billy
schlash
stingovitz
jimi heindritz
black shabbat
wierd al yarmulke

[furrylitldevil]

27. Bruce Springstein

is not jewish, "but my mother thinks he is"

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35. it's springSTEEN

and it's a joke, of course....

[rumguy]

12. Leonard Cohen

[Lexingtonian]

13. Pat Benetar

Courtney Love
Joan Jett (!)

[asthmaticeog]

17. Wow, mixed feelings

Joan Jett and Courtney Love both come as surprises. Psyched about Joan Jett, but not so thrilled to hear that Courtney is a fellow child of Abraham.

[absyntheNsugar]

15. Mike Gordon, John Fishman

From Phish....

Donald Fagen of Steely Dan
there are many more...

[Itchinjim]

16. How can you forget....

Mark Knophler.. Knofler...You know, the Dire Straits guy?

[Interrobang]

18. Frisky Dick Richards (aka "Violent J")

Dan Bern
HaDorbanim (of course!) ;-)

[Itchinjim]

20. And of course...

Mickey Hart and Phil Kreutzman of the G. Dead

[ikojo]

36. BILL Kreutzmann and that one comes as

a surprise. For the most part people who have German names ending in two "n's" are not Jewish. I have read a lot on the Grateful Dead and have seen nothing indicating Kreutzmann is Jewish or was raised Jewish.

[jpgray]

21. Randy California of Spirit--their debut album kicks ass (nt)

[Itchinjim]

22. Jesus am I drunk...

BILL Keurtzman of the G. Dead. G. Damn S. Comfort and O. Juice

[absyntheNsugar]

24. Mickey Hart too

however his father was a Fundamentalist Christian minister who then ripped them off...

Damn fundies...

[absyntheNsugar]

23. Can't beleive no one's said Lenny Kravitz

eom

[asthmaticeog]

26. Half

And it's on his dad's side. Judiasm relies on matrilineal descent, so according to the Orthodox, Lenny's not Jewish at all.

Then again, I don't give a shit about what the Orthodox have to say. (Except my uncle Isadore, my Aunt Hannah and their very intelligent son David, who's a successful accountant in Tel Aviv.)

[mitchum]

25. Marc Bolan and Richard Hell

[Sufi Marmot]

28. The late, great Warren Zevon.... n/t

[Paragon]

29. Herschel Yatovitz

Chris Isaak's lead guitarist for say, the last ten years.

[Sufi Marmot]

30. Hillel Slovak of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

Died of a heroin overdose...

[Sufi Marmot]

31. Jonathan Richman...n/t

[Ellen Forradalom]

32. The girls from Veruca Salt

Nina Gordon (Shapiro), daughter of Monsanto's CEO, and Louise Post.

[solinvictus]

41. Veruca Salt

Glad they faded away. A bargain basement Breeders rip off.

[mitchum]

44. I KNEW that they had to be trustfunders!

What a horrible horrible "band" They sounded like a couple of 8 year olds simpering along to old Ramones tracks. Good riddance.

[maveric]

33. Jerome"J" Geils

Of the J.Geils Band.

[Dogmudgeon]

34. Susannah Hoffs

from The Bangles.

--bkl

[mobuto]

37. Uh, Billy Joel?

Actaully, I don't particularly like Billy Joel, but his father was Jewish and a Holocaust survivor.

[ikojo]

39. Ummmm.....Robert Zimmerman aka

Bob Dylan...

Born a Jew....became a Christian...I think he considers himself Jewish again but not sure.

[ikojo]

40. Some more members of the tribe....

Barbra Streisand (although many would not consider her a rocker)
Neil Diamond (ditto re: Streisand)
Barry Manilow (for some in the same category as Streisand and Diamond)
Bette Midler
Manfred Mann (born Manfred Lubowitz)
Janis Ian (born Janis Fink)
Perry Ferrell (born Perry Bernstein
Paul Stanley (born Paul Eisen)
David Bryan (born David Brian Rashbaum) keyboardist for Bon Jovi
Geddy Lee

Chag Sameach Pesach to all of the above...well perhaps I am early...Pesach does not begin until 4/5

[U2Shark]

42. Metal

Scott Ian from Antrax is Jewish, and I think ex-guitarist Dan Spitz is too.

Slash is half-Jewish.

[Jim__]

43. Murray the K ?

Murray Kaufmann. He wasn't really a rocker; but, he was a rock and roll DJ.

[latebloomer]

45. not really a rocker, but Phoebe Snow

was born Phoebe Laub-- from my hometown of Teaneck, New Jersey.

[Gildor Inglorion]

46. Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel

right?