Further Adventures in Rocking Out

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.