The Young Ones
The old school rules for our teenage correspondent, even if Rob Halford is old enough to be his mom.
by High School Johnny Allison - August 4, 2005
In 2001, Guitar One magazine voted Limp Bizkit the worst band of the year. This news came as a bit of a surprise to fans of Florida's finest new-metal export- but not to me.
For fans of the band, the question was: How could a band who just that previous year had been topping the charts and selling millions of albums worldwide suddenly be the standard for a lame band? It didn't make sense.
Was it singer Fred Durst's fondness for false stories of celebrity hookups?
Nope.
It was because the new wave of rock and metal bands simply doesn't live up to a quality of excellence and talent that the kids deserve--that kids need.
And the kids are finally catching on. Catching on to the fact that Sugarcult is no Black Sabbath; Zwan is no Zeppelin. The young people are discovering the righteous hard rock and metal of yore, putting aside Korn's crud and replacing it with AC/DC and Queen. They're digging up their parents' turntable and buying the old albums (on vinyl, no less).
Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath headline Ozzfest tours and the crowds they draw truly span the generations. In talking with fans and concertgoers, there's no doubt but that many, if not most, attend the festival simply to see the classics, and could care less about the new bands.
At the July 17 Ozzfest in Hartford, the crowd was filled with teens and preteens wearing Iron Maiden t-shirts, and you really had to search to find shirts celebrating new acts like Shadows Fall or Mudvayne.
Those bands, in fact, were reduced to psyching up the crowd by asking if they were ready to be rocked by Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
Of course we were!
Whenever a classic rock band hits the road, there is always some kid who's just heard of them and will be anxious to catch the show. Only then do they realize that the stuff that's been shoved at them by the major labels pales in comparison to the classic stuff.
And the classic bands are happy to oblige the kids. Kiss has rolled out its latest summer tour, just as Mötley Crüe hit the road in support of the new Crüe anthology, generating enough interest that they played a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. AC/DC released the Stiff Upper Lip album in 2000 and is currently producing another. This year's Angel of Retribution finds metal pioneers Judas Priest at the top of their game. From Def Leppard to Deep Purple, these band never die, even if they do lose the occasional limb.
Before Iron Maiden bid farewell in Hartford, they assured the crowd that they're not getting old and are working on yet another album to follow 2003's highly successful Dance of Death, which hit stores in fall 2003.
As for Limp Bizkit, perhaps it's not too late for them to grow out their hair, throw on some leather pants, and make some music that's as essential as the classics.
On second thought, how about you just throw in the towel, Fred, and leave the metal to the grownups.
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Cheers
The old school rules for our teenage correspondent, even if Rob Halford is old enough to be his mom.
by High School Johnny Allison - August 4, 2005
In 2001, Guitar One magazine voted Limp Bizkit the worst band of the year. This news came as a bit of a surprise to fans of Florida's finest new-metal export- but not to me.
For fans of the band, the question was: How could a band who just that previous year had been topping the charts and selling millions of albums worldwide suddenly be the standard for a lame band? It didn't make sense.
Was it singer Fred Durst's fondness for false stories of celebrity hookups?
Nope.
It was because the new wave of rock and metal bands simply doesn't live up to a quality of excellence and talent that the kids deserve--that kids need.
And the kids are finally catching on. Catching on to the fact that Sugarcult is no Black Sabbath; Zwan is no Zeppelin. The young people are discovering the righteous hard rock and metal of yore, putting aside Korn's crud and replacing it with AC/DC and Queen. They're digging up their parents' turntable and buying the old albums (on vinyl, no less).
Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath headline Ozzfest tours and the crowds they draw truly span the generations. In talking with fans and concertgoers, there's no doubt but that many, if not most, attend the festival simply to see the classics, and could care less about the new bands.
At the July 17 Ozzfest in Hartford, the crowd was filled with teens and preteens wearing Iron Maiden t-shirts, and you really had to search to find shirts celebrating new acts like Shadows Fall or Mudvayne.
Those bands, in fact, were reduced to psyching up the crowd by asking if they were ready to be rocked by Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
Of course we were!
Whenever a classic rock band hits the road, there is always some kid who's just heard of them and will be anxious to catch the show. Only then do they realize that the stuff that's been shoved at them by the major labels pales in comparison to the classic stuff.
And the classic bands are happy to oblige the kids. Kiss has rolled out its latest summer tour, just as Mötley Crüe hit the road in support of the new Crüe anthology, generating enough interest that they played a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. AC/DC released the Stiff Upper Lip album in 2000 and is currently producing another. This year's Angel of Retribution finds metal pioneers Judas Priest at the top of their game. From Def Leppard to Deep Purple, these band never die, even if they do lose the occasional limb.
Before Iron Maiden bid farewell in Hartford, they assured the crowd that they're not getting old and are working on yet another album to follow 2003's highly successful Dance of Death, which hit stores in fall 2003.
As for Limp Bizkit, perhaps it's not too late for them to grow out their hair, throw on some leather pants, and make some music that's as essential as the classics.
On second thought, how about you just throw in the towel, Fred, and leave the metal to the grownups.
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Cheers
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