Posted on 11/01/2015 1:46:58 AM PST by WhiskeyX
Something tells me AV is big into garbage like Metallica.
Kiss was a pretty good band. Maybe not at that concert you saw them.
Twice without makeup, twice with.
They are loud.
Have a GREAT audience (most definitely the women).
GREAT...GREAT stage show. Music...blah.
2-3 songs, everything else is junk.
Tired of the same 3 chords over and over and over and over again.
Lyrics are GREAT...if your a high school kid.
Hahaha! I liked that.
Bread was crummy. See what I did there? A "chick band" only girls liked. The only guy who liked Bread grew up to become Lindsey Graham.
Sure!
1. Refine your tastes away from mass marketed dreck.
2. Avoid crowds. Cattle and sheep gather in crowds. The mob mentality is truly uncool.
3. Reject all Big Media input. Do not be manipulated by indoctrination pushed on you as entertainment.
4. Oppose the flow. An example- want to find money? Go up downward flights of stairs. All the others treading downward as instructed do not see that $20 bill laying there beneath their heels where the tread meets the riser.
5. Stay away from "bandwagons". Whenever I've noticed a bandwagon effect I jump off.
You are now on the way to your first taste of "coolness".
I saw Styx in 1976, as the warm-up band to Foghat. Outstanding concert.
Agree about comment around Kiss. Concert was loud distorted noise.
In my elder state, I think the best there ever was is/was Rush. Of course that is just my opinion.
Wow! Thanks for all the great “coolness” tips, AV!! I will try my hardest to do these things that you suggest so that I can be as cool as you. I think at that point I will change my FR handle to “Molecular Diarrhea”.
I tend to agree with you but Styx was harmless. Be nice.
Never mind the static, AV...
I get you and your “philosophy” on music...
I love Heavy Metal...Disturbed, Godsmack, Audioslave and yes, Mettallica .....and I’m a 62 yr old Boomer who lived in SF when Santana, Tower of Power, and Bill Graham ran the town....good times, good times...
Kiss was a pretty good band. Maybe not at that concert you saw them."
Nope. Too demonic. Couple of ok riffs on "Sandman" but I never gave them my time or money.
I liked more humorous artists like The Talking Heads and Devo. Or like ZZ Top if more mass market oriented.
Like I said- oppose the flow.
Kiss was a human cartoon that may as well have been managed by Sid and Marty Krofft.
Off topic but the Sid and Marty Krofft rubbish that spilled from your tv's was really really uncool. I'll bet there is a direct relationship showing that the vacant-eyed kids who watched that brightly colored puffery grew in to Styx and Kiss fans.
Thanks!
Ted Cruz is very cool.
I’m not enough of a music critic to be able to say what is good music, or bad. I just know what I like. And when it comes to Styx, I like much of their music,in part because it reminds me of a time in my life that was enjoyable, and reminds me of friends I no longer see, but remember fondly.
Ping
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssss!
You made my day!
That’s funny
Actually, almost all of what you described about Styx is inaccurate.
Far from being a creation of record company executives, Dennis DeYoung and the Panazzo brothers grew up in the same Chicago neighborhood and played in bands together from the early 60s and were joined by James Young in the mid-60s.
Rather than make their way to New York or LA to be ‘discovered’ by the tiny insular clique of record company executives and journalists that determine for you what music is deigned to be cool, Styx and their predecessor bands spent years playing high school proms, college bars, and opening act gigs in Chicago and the surrounding Midwestern states. Tirelessly playing small venues with music that average people actually want to listen to is a very uncool formula for success, but the one that they followed.
Dennis DeYoung was and is a devout Catholic, has been married to his high school sweetheart for over 40 years and frequently brought his family on tour with him, which are all reasons why he and Styx are hated by all the coolest folks in the rock world.
And then there is the matter of the Styx lyrics. Early Styx lyrics were littered with references to classical literature and mythology (DeYoung was a school teacher). There are references on to Tiresias, the blind prophet of Thebes on the Grand Illusion album. Thus infuriated rock critics, who didn’t want kids to hear about any culture that pre-dated Marx or Nietze.
And there was “Blue Collar Man” which extolled the virtues of hard work and self-reliance. And there was a song on the Cornerstone album called ‘Eddie’ which told Ted Kennedy not to run for the Presidency, because his time had passed.
And then came Paradise Theater which used an actual movie palace that Dennis DeYoung remembered from his childhood, which had fallen into disrepair, as a metaphor for the country’s decaying value system. The album was released just as Reagan came into office, and the songs on the albums were a laundry list of social problems caused by liberalism. “Too much time on my hands” was about idleness. “Nothing ever goes as planned” was about empty materialism. “Lonely people” was about the breakdown of the family. “Snowblind” was about drug use. “Half-penny, two penny” was about materialism and the breakdown of the family. And sprinkled in were songs that held out hope, like “Rockin’ the Paradise” which was about hard work and honesty, and “The Best of Times”.
Yes, they were a band that was truly hated by Rolling Stone and the leftist rock music establishment.
But for a teenager growing up in the Midwest, who loved rock music but actually listened to the lyrics and wanted something other than the options of hedonism, nihilism and Satanism that were promoted by record companies in the 70s, they were a welcome resident on my turntable.
You left out the gay bass player.
Nah, my politics are fine. Styx still smokes meat.
FIFY
Nothing gay about homosexuals. An inaccurate descriptor they stole and perverted the meaning of. If they can define the words they win the argument.
I am gay. At the moment. I'm a very happy guy. I enjoy gaiety.
Profoundly disturbed people who live short, sick, sad and violent lives are not a bit gay.
The accurate descriptor for individuals for whom there is no sex without the presence of feces is, "fecal". Fecal rights! Fecal advocate! Proud to be fecal!
Don't let them define your words.
AV- truly gay.
I reckon they were just doing the bidding of A&M Records, though. Who knew that Herb Alpert was the personification of corporate evil?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.