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How do you Rock?

 
  

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Brigade du jour
00:32 / 23.12.02
Thank you Flyboy, you reminded me of something I wanted to pick up on, that somebody else pointed out - yes it's true too many guitar bands have forgotten how to Rock these days (indeed, one wonders if they ever knew how to). I mean, when a bunch of fifty-year-olds like Aerosmith or Alice Cooper or the Stones are sending more adrenaline through their audience's systems than bands half or even a third of their age, one has to despair for Rock's future.

Then again, maybe you don't need a guitar in order to rock - Jerry Lee Lewis demonstrated this amply about forty-five years ago. But you might say Prodigy and Chemical Brothers and guys like that Rock as well. As much as they are fans of Iron Maiden or whoever, they've had the presence of mind to tap not into the mechanics of what they do, so much as the consequences, which involve turning the audience into quivering over-excited three-year-olds. Rock on kids!
 
 
rizla mission
10:07 / 23.12.02
I mean, when a bunch of fifty-year-olds like Aerosmith or Alice Cooper or the Stones are sending more adrenaline through their audience's systems than bands half or even a third of their age, one has to despair for Rock's future.

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!!

The whiteboy guitar bands THAT GET ON TV don't rock, for the obvious reason that TV and ROCK don't mix!

Trust me when I say I could rattle off the names of about 50 new-ish groups I've been exposed to in the last year who could wipe aforementioned rock-dinosaurs off the face of the earth from half a mile away with a well placed sonic bullet! (Equipping them with such is another matter of course, but we here at the Noise War Coalition Research Labs are working on it..)

And that's hopeless prejudice, Flyboy, hopeless prejudice.. :P
 
 
The Natural Way
10:25 / 23.12.02
The Destiny's vs Nirvana mix I just heard ROCKS.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:30 / 23.12.02
Oh, Riz, Flyboy's just going through his post-indie rock youth, guitar hating phase. He'll get over it.

Wink.

But he is right to a certain extent, hiphop IS the new rock 'n' roll.
 
 
deja_vroom
10:52 / 23.12.02
As long as they use distorted guitars and scream like a bagful of bastards falling downstairs, I don't care.
 
 
rizla mission
11:13 / 23.12.02
That's my tombstone inscription, right there.
 
 
Brigade du jour
19:35 / 30.12.02
What, the 'bagful of bastards' bit? Nice. A new thread on its way, methinks.
 
 
Hattie's Kitchen
12:54 / 31.12.02
I don't rock. Ninjas don't rock.
 
 
Brigade du jour
19:24 / 01.01.03
You do Rock, Hattie's. I've seen you. Alien Gloria Gaynor, for a start.

Sorry, in-joke digression. I'm outta here!
 
  

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