dcburn
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This thread is making me think I need to sign in Mk.ii
Rex Rocker
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headlessdeadguy
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Those vocals make me want to stick ice picks in my ears.
RaceU4her
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Theres a local dude here who’s claim to fame is he tried out to be their drummer and was told his face was too fat or something along those lines
japetus
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That's hilarious since Gene Simmons looked 15 years older than his age always and looked like a greasy stuffed sausage
Nashville Riff Co
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hahaha whats the community consensus on whether the guy is lying?
skoora
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It was the social change that irritated me more than the music (which really started blowing after ‘94). I was never a hair metal guy in style (pretty straight denim and leather) but I really grew to hate the general dark attitudes and mopey dress of the times. Women just looked so dull and I never want to see dark lipstick and eyeliner with dark red or Brown dyed hair ever again. Hookups were fraught with weird baggage. Everybody, even when partying, seemed to do it with a depressed edge.
The smaller music scenes, especially punk could be so uptight (IME in Seattle). Hardly anybody I played with would dare go outside the norm of what is expected to be played ie. No spontaneous fun. It had become too much of people’s identities.
I remember a friend getting angry at me because I wouldn’t go see a band playing nearby to where we’re drinking because I should be supporting the scene like a good soldier. I just straight said I’m not going because I don’t think they’re any good. Why the fuck would I go see any band I don’t like, in a venue I didn’t really like to see bands in?
I would never have worn spandex but would it kill a band or two to wear some leather or decent stage clothes. I remember buying leather pants in the mid 90’s because I just couldn’t do the street clothes thing anymore on stage.
I’ll never forget in ‘96, when KISS did the first reunion tour and just feeling at the show (while being made up as Paul Stanley on the outside
) “THIS IS IT!!” “THIS IS A FUCKING ROCK n ROLL SHOW!”The whole, my parents or lack thereof, ruined my life, pity party was a just horrible then as it is any time.
Give me life sucks, let’s have a good time, any time, or at least some nice rebellious fuck the system but let’s bang too, back in rock and punk music over what I experienced in the mainstream 90’s.
I look back and even though 89-93 was a great time to be 19-23, I feel my best years of being in my 20’s were wasted on that decade. At least early 30’s got to be fun again.
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DanTravis62
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It was the social change that irritated me more than the music (which really started blowing after ‘94). I was never a hair metal guy in style (pretty straight denim and leather) but I really grew to hate the general dark attitudes and mopey dress of the times. Women just looked so dull and I never want to see dark lipstick and eyeliner with dark red or Brown dyed hair ever again. Hookups were fraught with weird baggage. Everybody, even when partying, seemed to do it with a depressed edge.
The smaller music scenes, especially punk could be so uptight (IME in Seattle). Hardly anybody I played with would dare go outside the norm of what is expected to be played ie. No spontaneous fun. It had become too much of people’s identities.
I remember a friend getting angry at me because I wouldn’t go see a band playing nearby to where we’re drinking because I should be supporting the scene like a good soldier. I just straight said I’m not going because I don’t think they’re any good. Why the fuck would I go see any band I don’t like, in a venue I didn’t really like to see bands in?
I would never have worn spandex but would it kill a band or two to wear some leather or decent stage clothes. I remember buying leather pants in the mid 90’s because I just couldn’t do the street clothes thing anymore on stage.
I’ll never forget in ‘96, when KISS did the first reunion tour and just feeling at the show (while being made up as Paul Stanley on the outside
The whole, my parents or lack thereof, ruined my life, pity party was a just horrible then as it is any time.
Give me life sucks, let’s have a good time, any time or at least some nice rebellious fuck the system but let’s bang too, back in rock and punk music over what I experienced in the mainstream 90’s.
I look back and even though 89-93 was a great time to be 19-23, I feel my best years of being in my 20’s were wasted on that decade. At least early 30’s got to be fun again.
I was too young for hair metal, but the whole miasma of the 90s infected "popular" music so thoroughly that I sought out alternatives
Which ended up being the underground skate-punk scene and the euro-power/speed scene
Both of them, for all of their faults, were the complete antithesis of the 90s woe is me/I don't care about anything/everything sucks and "if i'm happy or positive it's ironic" vibe that permeated everything
Whether its "UNITY GOTTA STAY TOGETHER" operation ivy or super cheesy positive "flower" metal, it was the prescription for an acute case of HAWWW LAWWW YAWWW I'M DEPRESSED that was going around at the time
Rock and roll is supposed to be cathartic - there's nothing aspirational about depressed jackoffs who can't play their instruments doing gregorian heroin chants
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower
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It was the social change that irritated me more than the music (which really started blowing after ‘94). I was never a hair metal guy in style (pretty straight denim and leather) but I really grew to hate the general dark attitudes and mopey dress of the times. Women just looked so dull and I never want to see dark lipstick and eyeliner with dark red or Brown dyed hair ever again. Hookups were fraught with weird baggage. Everybody, even when partying, seemed to do it with a depressed edge.
The smaller music scenes, especially punk could be so uptight (IME in Seattle). Hardly anybody I played with would dare go outside the norm of what is expected to be played ie. No spontaneous fun. It had become too much of people’s identities.
I remember a friend getting angry at me because I wouldn’t go see a band playing nearby to where we’re drinking because I should be supporting the scene like a good soldier. I just straight said I’m not going because I don’t think they’re any good. Why the fuck would I go see any band I don’t like, in a venue I didn’t really like to see bands in?
I would never have worn spandex but would it kill a band or two to wear some leather or decent stage clothes. I remember buying leather pants in the mid 90’s because I just couldn’t do the street clothes thing anymore on stage.
I’ll never forget in ‘96, when KISS did the first reunion tour and just feeling at the show (while being made up as Paul Stanley on the outside
The whole, my parents or lack thereof, ruined my life, pity party was a just horrible then as it is any time.
Give me life sucks, let’s have a good time, any time or at least some nice rebellious fuck the system but let’s bang too, back in rock and punk music over what I experienced in the mainstream 90’s.
I look back and even though 89-93 was a great time to be 19-23, I feel my best years of being in my 20’s were wasted on that decade. At least early 30’s got to be fun again.
Guilty
sytharnia1560
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when he's soloing he does .. on that "year in the life" doco from 1990/91 he's in a bar playing a Tele and most of the notes are pinch harmonics haha
skoora
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I got my goth out of my system in the 80’s. I think it’s why I liked hanging with strippers in the 90’s. They knew what to do with vinyl when it came to clothes.
There’s a big difference between a sexy Morticia and a dark Thelma. If she wasn’t a dancer, the vast majority of women I saw were the latter. It was like a Nazi plot to recreate Natalie Merchant and Lisa Loeb as the Master race.
When I moved to So Cal in the later 90’s Mexican girls came to the rescue….but damn it was a dark time of dickies, Ben Davis, wifebeaters and pomade around then
MadAsAHatter
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I feel like it isn't Rig-talk if we don't have a biweekly thread bitching about Metallica or Tim Henson
skoora
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Yeah, big time with euro-metal. Almost Sweden alone, kept my musical hopes alive and not just with metal, while the United States had put a moratorium on calling anything with big guitars metal. If it wasn’t for Pantera, Machinehead (for two albums anyway) and Slayer you would think it had gone extinct in America.
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PhoneyIommi
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Like Platform Ron DesantisWhy is it the little fella on that episode of Seinfeld who acted with Kramer got accused of wearing "lifts" in his shoes and caught shit, but Marty Friedman wears platforms like KISS and nobody says anything?
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Philhouse
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I didn't expect that to gif on me...
made me question if I'd perhaps forgotten that I dropped a half tab this morning.
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PhoneyIommi
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Just a normal day then...I didn't expect that to gif on me...
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VonBonfire
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It was the social change that irritated me more than the music (which really started blowing after ‘94). I was never a hair metal guy in style (pretty straight denim and leather) but I really grew to hate the general dark attitudes and mopey dress of the times. Women just looked so dull and I never want to see dark lipstick and eyeliner with dark red or Brown dyed hair ever again. Hookups were fraught with weird baggage. Everybody, even when partying, seemed to do it with a depressed edge.
The smaller music scenes, especially punk could be so uptight (IME in Seattle). Hardly anybody I played with would dare go outside the norm of what is expected to be played ie. No spontaneous fun. It had become too much of people’s identities.
I remember a friend getting angry at me because I wouldn’t go see a band playing nearby to where we’re drinking because I should be supporting the scene like a good soldier. I just straight said I’m not going because I don’t think they’re any good. Why the fuck would I go see any band I don’t like, in a venue I didn’t really like to see bands in?
I would never have worn spandex but would it kill a band or two to wear some leather or decent stage clothes. I remember buying leather pants in the mid 90’s because I just couldn’t do the street clothes thing anymore on stage.
I’ll never forget in ‘96, when KISS did the first reunion tour and just feeling at the show (while being made up as Paul Stanley on the outside
The whole, my parents or lack thereof, ruined my life, pity party was a just horrible then as it is any time.
Give me life sucks, let’s have a good time, any time, or at least some nice rebellious fuck the system but let’s bang too, back in rock and punk music over what I experienced in the mainstream 90’s.
I look back and even though 89-93 was a great time to be 19-23, I feel my best years of being in my 20’s were wasted on that decade. At least early 30’s got to be fun again.
Reading all this makes me glad I just decided to play straight blues. I didn't have to go through periods of forced misery, it's been part of the gig all along.
RaceU4her
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i forgot the guys name, im guessing it was back in the 70s, i think he might have been in the band that did "nah nah hey hey goodbye" who were from here, i know my father was in bands with some of those dudes and he knew him, i just remember him saying they liked him but his look was a no go, reading that now about marty it sounds plausible lol
thegame
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They thought Marty looked less appropriate for KISS than Vinnie Vincent?
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VonBonfire
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They said he was too short which is strange considering Paul Stanley is not exactly a tower of a man even with those stupid looking boots on.