Coach Mike Leach Ends His Press Conference With His Analysis of Neil Young and Why Disco Music Sucks
Q: Who is your favorite band or musician?
ML: Favorite band or musician, that covers a lot of ground. That’s a wide swath right there. Jeez. Well, I don’t know. Let’s see here. Well on the way over here I listened to Marshall Tucker Band sing Fire on the Mountain, so they’re definitely a good one. And then they’re talking about the Eagles getting together for something. The Eagles are really good.
I’ve always had something between Neil Young, Jimmy Buffett and Lynrd Skynyrd have always been very much toward the top. Jethro Tull, The Doors. I’d definitely be leaving plenty of people out. But yeah, there’s a lot of good ones. Bob Dylan.
Q: Have you seen any of them in concert?
ML: I’ve seen a few. I’m not an aggressive concert guy but if they’re right there I’ll go. The best concert I’ve been to, and I like him, I like his stuff. I guess his stuff isn’t my very favorite, by the best concert is Bob Seager, that I’ve been to.
It was just very active. And John Mellencamp had a very good concert, too. And some of his back musicians were very good. He had a bunch of musicians behind him that got involved, too. Just incredible energy to the thing.
Q: What about Neil Young interests you so much?
ML: Neil Young was just a shade before my time, a little bit, I would say. See, when I was in high school, music was evolving toward disco and that was a very dark time. And it was a horrible, horrible period. To all the disco people out there, I’m going to offend I don’t care. I really don’t care. If you’re a disco person, your music’s awful. It is terrible. And the damage that it’s done to music, we still haven’t fully recovered. OK.
And, so anyway, as the bottom’s melting out of the music world your choice is to hold your breath toward the future, or you have to go backwards. So a lot of us, we went way back. We’re talking Beatles and Buddy Holly, which is obviously way back.
And those that held their breath toward the future, well then the overcorrection from music is punk. And then punk came out. And yes, it was an improvement to disco, but I don’t think that we’re fully happy and fully comfortable with that, and that didn’t totally withstand the test of time. But it did usher us into something better. OK.
So in drawing backwards, Neil Young I guess was almost the anti-disco. I’ve always valued lyrics a great deal. A song should say something instead of just be strictly music and I always, he had a wide variety of message. Everything he touched musically, he was a master of. He thought independently when disco personified those that didn’t think independently. Neil Young was the ultimate in independent thinking. Elevated every group he was every with. I still like Crosby, Stills and Nash, but they weren’t the same when Neil Young left, not even close. Neil Young’s kind of on the list of people I’d most like to meet. I don’t imagine he loves meeting people very much but, nevertheless, yeah, Neil Young’s always been toward the top of my list.
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I mean…I just love Mike Leach. Who doesn’t? Besides Craig James and his pussy son that got stuffed in a woodshed, who could possibly not?
A casual Monday afternoon press conference talking game strategy casually morphs into a dissertation on the musical styling of Neil Young and why the disco generation is a pile of shit. Classic Leach.
Cue my Mike Leach Top Life Moments list that I’ve been honing and perfecting over the years, with some brand news additions at the bottom.
1) Fat Little Girlfriends rant
2) Dating Tips
3) Long ass Baylor rant
4) Somebody took our lunch money
5) Mike Leach does the weather
6) Mike Leach the Eagle Scout and Pine Cone War soldier
7) Mike Leach says Lubbock is so savage he can’t guarantee other teams won’t get scalped
8) Mike Leach in Friday Night Lights
9) Mike Leach chimes in on Deflategate and the Kardashians
10) Mike Leach sleeps with a viking axe next to his bed.
11) Mike Leach mocks Arizona State for stealing his signs.
