August 25 / 2009
I recently heard a guy, who plays in a band whose name I will not mention, say “All the bands the kids like these days are shit”.
This is a thought which has been on my mind for quite a long time, even before hearing someone else mention my sentiments exactly.
Seriously.. what the fuck is up with Rock N Roll? Nevermind all the pop and top40 fucking garbage that’s all over the tv and radio, those plagues to music and society cannot be classified as Rock N Roll. No, I am talking about all the bands who try to pass themselves off as being Rock N Roll, and who actually get “categorized” as being Rock N Roll.
I don’t want to even mention sub-genres, or even certain band names. The thought of even doing so makes me wanna pound my fist into something. The haircuts, the lame content of the songs, the painfully annoying singing-screaming bullshit, their “image”, and their “rock-star” attitudes are a goddamn festering boil embedded into the music I love so much and that has saved my life.
Over-produced, badly written songs. Weak, pretty-boy images, all mass produced and shrink-wrapped by an evil recording industry (that is well on it’s way out) to be sold to the masses by the truck load.
Am I the only one here? Does anyone else, when they turn on their local “music” channel INSTANTLY get filled with hatred, disgust and rage at what they see singing and dancing back at them?? What the fuck happend to Rock N Roll?????
Rock N Roll is NOT dead. There ARE a handful of bands still out there, still slaving away, still being true to themselves and to the worthy cause of taking up guitars as their arms, marching forever onward, carrying the torch and flying the flag rebellion. Of Rock N Roll.
I really had to go back to the roots recently. Anything and everything I heard that was even remotely recent just turned me off. Made me not just want to stop playing music, but stop listening to it entirely. The only things that didn’t make me wanna puke in my shoes was old Sabbath albums, Thin Lizzy, Zepplin, Motorhead, AC/DC, and the like.
Getting back to the recent bands that are still creating their own path on their own terms and not bending over to take the fists full of cash up their arses by a recording industry that has gotten away with far too much for far too long; I will hail the likes of 4 bands, and the subsequent key sub-genres of Rock N Roll that they represent. Airbourne (pure blues-based rock n roll, carrying the torch of AC/DC) DoomRiders (classic rock influenced doom. Sabbath meets Lizzy). Coliseum. (Death N Roll at it’s finest). Zeke (blistering hardcore punk rock infused rock n roll).
They have always said that music (like many things) comes full circle. There is a drought, and then out of nowhere a few bands or a scene immediately erupts and makes everyone’s music library obsolete.
Well I gotta say, the well has been fuckin dry for too many years. The aforementioned 4 bands, though very important, will most likely not be the torch bearers of the long awaited, and much needed overhaul in Rock N Roll music. But I will boldly state that they are certainly paving the fuckin’ way and clearing the shit off the road for our new generation of Saviors.
With the overload of pop garbage, shit bands, hitler hair-cuts, and a dying music recording industry; Rock N Roll will live on. An overhaul is much needed. We have suffered this drought for far too long. Change is coming. History tells us that this is inevitable. What form it will come in makes me as nervous as it does excited. It’s all I have to look forward to. An army of soldiers, a “New Resistance” rising up with guitars as their arms.
Viva Rock N Roll!
