Spiros,I have to say I agree that this constitutes DOOM of the highest order. Is there anything worse than Punk Rock nostalgia? Yes. Proto-Punk Rock nostalgia. I also agree with the injunction to assassinate. However, I have now checked, and the tour isn't coming to my city...
It is my distinctive pleasure to reveal unto your doom-loving ass a tragedy of cosmic implications. Fuck Sammy's autobiography. That's small potatoes. Behold some real Doom. I just heard on my local rock radio station an announcement for a tour with the following line-up: Motley Crue; Poison; The New York Dolls.
You read that correctly. By my estimations from varied clues in your posts, you are probably old enough to have been a fan of the Dolls first time around (and that's fucking old). You'd better check to see if this world-destroying-justifying travesty is coming to your city. If it is, and you do not, personally, assassinate at least one member from each band (using the term loosely), you're a poseur and a disgrace.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
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Motley Crue, and Poison as punk???
Maybe the Earth will finally open up and swallow us all.
Jerk, I meant to suggest that The NY Dolls are proto-punk.
Crue and Poison are pop metal.
Hey, hey, hey! I love 99% of your posts, but don't be dissing my Crüe. Saints of Los Angeles is one of the classic LA triumphalist anthems, possibly second only to This Town. Respect.
"However, I have now checked, and the tour isn't coming to my city..."
I can't help myself but reading that sentence I hear the voice of snake charmer David Carradine.
WV: oustslid
With respect to the Dolls (and in the OG Dolls' defense), there's not that many of them left to assassinate. That Johansen/ Sylvain Sylvain have extremely questionable taste and judgment shouldn't exactly surprise anyone.
I admit being a Crue fan as well, although "Shout at the Devil" was my favourite.
The real doom are the legion of singers copying that early 90's Eddie Vedder sound of Cher with testicles.
Brooks and Gowder,
Your courage has convinced me to come out of the closet as well.
I've actually seen Motley Crue (insert umlauts) live twice, and Too Fast for Love has seem me through many a dark night.
Perhaps most embarrassingly, I've read every single one of their various ghost written autobiographies. Their main songwriter, Nikki Sixx, is hugely into David Bowie and the New York Dolls. All the early makeup came from that, and you can hear the influence in some of the songs. He's also very eloquent in just how excruciatingly painful it is to have to spend an evening either with Mel Gibson (hour after hour of mind crushingly repetitive and increasingly slurred jokes about anal sex; and that's really all you need to know about his weird Jesus movie if fact) or Gene Simmons (hour after hour of repetitive statements about what a genius Gene Simmons is).
Apparently, Misters Gibson and Simmons are both vastly easier to put up with when you are off your gourd from speedballing heroin and cocaine. I don't think Sixx's friendship with either survived all twelve steps.
Oh well, I'm going to go visit the other string and post something to show that I got the Misfits reference.
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