Per a recent dinner discussion about rocking, and the exchange over at BEM, the Rock of Love show, as well as because of my own need to find Rock That Doesn't Suck, I present to you...Metal Skool. I know you may have already heard about them, but let me set this video up. I want to call Metal Skool a parody band, a tribute band, etc., but they aren't dilletants who could never "make it." Each member has been in "real" rock bands and has studio-perfect skills: no dilletant wannabes here. They frequently bring "actual" rockers up on stage (like Jerry Cantrell, the Distrubed lead singer, Bon Jovi's keyboard player, etc.) and currently play to the Sunet Strip demographic that glam rock used to court anyway. So where are we people? The parody has become so good as to actually rock better than the original stuff and most of what's around today. All those nu metal assholes are missing the point. You have to have a sense of humor going into and what follows is "sincere" headbanging and "that feeling" that you had in the 80s when you couldn't fucking believe music could be So Awesome--until it was all ruined by growing up.
One last thing: this performance is delicious because it's flawed. The mistakes they make are what rock is all about.
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Yet another reason to love Pink. Why can't she hook up with a "real" rock band and leave that annoying hip-hop shit behind?
I love that— on a dime— she kicked into a Skid Row song. Go back and look at her face when they other singer says the name of the song. The recognition and joy on her face, like she had been waiting her whole career to kick out the jams to this song in public, is priceless.
Also, how the fuck old is Pink at this point? She's been around for a long time, for a pop star.
BOth of you are so right: she's a rocker yearning to do only that, but she can't because she's got to make a living, I guess. She does the hip hop stuff, but she's got this third category of music that's a sort of arena-rock/disco thang. I loved her ever since I found out her dog's name is Fucker. Brandi from Buffalo kinda reminds me of her, too. Oh shit, did I just come full circle???
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