Ronnie James Dio died the other day, quietly succumbed to a relatively sudden onset of stomach cancer and up and left the planet in a blaze of stage fire, dragonsmoke and general metal awesomeness. Maybe you heard.
Mark MorfordTags: rock-music ronnie-james-dio
Give the People what they want - and they'll get what they deserve.
The KinksTags: humor rock-music wit life-lessons irony popular-culture
Things began to go wrong when I was seventeen. My band’s twenty-year-old lead guitarist earned seven years in jail for a drug-fuelled spree of violence. The other band members were quick to let go of their musical dreams, but I never did. They did the ‘mature’ thing: after writing off the band as a teenage fantasy, they got real jobs and made some money. They called it growing up. I called it giving up.
Mark RiceTags: dreams fantasy rock-music drugs guitar violence teenage heavy-metal mark-rice metallic-dreams bands
I was ten when I heard the music that ended the first phase of my life and cast me hurtling towards a new horizon. Drenched to the skin, I stood on Dunoon’s pier peering seawards through diagonal rain, looking for the ferry that would take me home. There, on the everwet west coast of Scotland, I heard it: like sonic scalpels, the sounds of electric guitars sliced through the dreich weather. My body hairs pricked up like antennae. To my young ears these amplified guitars sounded angelic, for surely no man-made instrument could produce that tone. The singer couldn't be human. His voice was too clean, too pure, too resonant, as though a robot larynx were piping words through vocal chords of polished silver. The overall effect was intoxicating - a storm of drums, earthquake bass, razor-sharp guitar riffs, and soaring vocals of astonishing clarity. I knew that I was hearing the future.
Mark RiceTags: rock-music transition heavy-metal rite-of-passage mark-rice metallic-dreams electric-guitars
Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's real rebellion.
Alice CooperTags: christianity rock-music rebel alice-cooper
We were orphans before we were ever the sons of these songs.
The Gaslight Anthem , OrphansTags: rock-music song band gaslight-anthem
If Music is a Place -- then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.
Vera NazarianTags: music road rock-music folk-music metaphor jazz rock wilderness wild place genre city musical temple rock-and-roll classical-music folk classical jazz-music motif
Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all.
Joan JettTags: rock-music humor-inspirational rock-and-roll boobs guts balls joan-jett gumption
In the late 80s though, during the new Glam Rock, leather trousers came back with a vengeance. In a way they replaced Spandex, which had slipped slowly out of fashion due to bands like Saxon never being out of the stuff. These new leather trousers began to develop accessories such as tassels, sequins, and laces up the sides. This all looked quite nice for a while, but in the end they were just another easy target for Kurt Cobain and his subversive cardigans.
Seb HunterTags: humour rock-music rock metal
You don't take music seriously if you wear your left ear bud in your right ear and your right ear bud in your left ear.
Lou BrutusTags: music rock-music rock rock-and-roll
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