Curt McGirt Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 31 minutes ago, MORELOCK said: Pretty much every "name" band that's still performing from before the turn of the century seems to charge an arm and a leg - presumably because the older crowd now has disposable income and will spend the money for the nostalgia trip alone. ...except BOC, who will play your county fair for $3 a pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 How I think of older bands who still tour (good for them, but, you know...)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Chester Bennington (Linkin Park frontman) was apparently discovered dead just a couple hours ago from hanging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 Damn ... only 41. Was big friends of Chris Cornell - who's birthday it would have been today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted July 20, 2017 Share Posted July 20, 2017 The lyrics on Hybrid Theory are absolutely haunting now. So sad. LP is very divisive, but they are a band that meant so much to late teens-early 20's me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamBroken Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Damn, terrible news. Always enjoyed Linkin Park, especially those first two albums with hit after hit and still lots of good ones in recent years. RIP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Yeah, this is the first time a singer from my "childhood" (more like preteen to late teens) has passed away and it's really.... I don't know. Weird? I don't think that's the right word, but I grew up with the music of Linkin Park - they're basically the first band I became obsessed with - and it's just so damn heartbreaking. I know he was abused by a male in his family when he was younger so I'm sure that pretty much damaged him from the get-go. Fucking tragic. RIP Chester, I'll be bumping Meteora today (IMO their best album). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted July 21, 2017 Share Posted July 21, 2017 Damn, I didn't know about Chester until just now. I loved their early stuff and the hits especially were in heavy rotation back then. Heck there's still a couple I'd play at the gym. Without knowing how truly bad things are/were he definitely seemed like a guy who's had a fucked up life. But damn, that voice and the songs really resonated with myself an many others. The sad thing is that leading up to it he seemed pretty optimistic about the new album so this seems relatively sudden to some. But that really sucks, RIP Chester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Maybe I'm reaching on this, but I'm speaking from a place of my own depression. But I wonder if the poor fan reception to the new album triggered something. Like, I know that seems trivial, but something I deal with daily is thinking that the people I love don't like me, and it sits in my mind for days. I feel like something like that may have happened. Linkin Park always cared a ton about their fans, so imagine getting that kind of reaction from people you care that much about. Also,lots of people checked out on LP after the first 2-3 albums, but seriously, everything up until the last two were good-very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 I'm pretty sure The Hunting Party kind of divided their fanbase as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 I was never a fan of Linkin Park, but the EP he did with STP was pretty good and it's terrible he's dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted July 23, 2017 Share Posted July 23, 2017 Have they said much more, I'm just going to assume this is linked to substance abuse resurfacing again until I'm told otherwise. Never liked them, but you never want this for anyone or their family, friends and fanbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted July 24, 2017 Share Posted July 24, 2017 On 7/23/2017 at 0:41 AM, Ryan said: Have they said much more, I'm just going to assume this is linked to substance abuse resurfacing again until I'm told otherwise. Never liked them, but you never want this for anyone or their family, friends and fanbase. I sadly wouldn't be surprised if that happened, but didn't this happen on what would have been Cornell's birthday? If so I could see that being the main reason why things went south for him. I'm also wondering if a day like that was coming up why there wasn't anybody around to be there for him. It seems like one of those days where you'd need a friend or family member to be around for support, especially since him and Chris were so close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 If one wants to see the power of music, check this out. While it's not current music I still feel it's worth sharing. This kind of restored my faith in humanity if only for a few minutes. http://shareably.co/crowd-sings-queen-in-unison/?utm_source=page&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=music 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kronos Posted July 30, 2017 Share Posted July 30, 2017 3 hours ago, NikoBaltimore said: If one wants to see the power of music, check this out. While it's not current music I still feel it's worth sharing. This kind of restored my faith in humanity if only for a few minutes. http://shareably.co/crowd-sings-queen-in-unison/?utm_source=page&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=music Not gonna lie - that made me a little teary-eyed. And all kinds of happy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 3 hours ago, Kronos said: Not gonna lie - that made me a little teary-eyed. And all kinds of happy. Same here, it got me pretty good earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 That was special. I've seen pits break out at a show when "Angel of Death" was played on the PA before anyone hit the stage, and I've gotten the rush and the ending comedy of "Doctor Doctor" by UFO and Monty Python being played at Iron Maiden but Queen being sang along to by a sea of people at a goddamn Green Day concert, of all places... yeah. Wow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 When I saw Green Day (oh God almost 13 years ago) they covered Queen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kronos Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 TIL that there's apparently a term in use to insult primarily white males who like rock music: “rockist” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 How is that even an insult or a thing to be made into an insult? This should probably only apply to people who stuck in a specific time period and refuse to acknowledge good music exists at any point past then or in any other genres. Quote rockism (uncountable) (derogatory) A kind of music snobbery that views rock music as superior or normative and values music with "authentic" production values over modern "manufactured" and electronic forms. [quotations ▲] 2005, J. T. LeRoy, Paul Bresnick, Da Capo best music writing 2005 (page 133) You literally can't fight rockism, because the language of righteous struggle is the language of rockism itself. 2008, Philip Auslander, Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture (page 126) Broadly speaking, rockism is the belief that rock is the most important form of popular music […] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 today I learned ryan doesn't hang out with people who have multiple bands fuck I know people younger than me who still try that "RAP ISN'T REAL MUSIC" shit on me, it's weird as hell. People love themselves some ideological purity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 The only people who do that shit around me are my father who is 66 or old stupid relatives at weddings as the kids are out on the floor having fun. "You don't listen to that 'jungle bunny' music do you?" I stare at them perplexed and change the subject away from stupid racist shit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 So, not your preferred version? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts