7 Wishes wrote:No offense, but Bettie Wetter couldn't get on key if he had a SoundForge, Mutt Lange, and Contreras working as his vocal coach six days a week for a decade. He's plain awful. Now, I do think that "Given To Fly" was a fantastic song...even though they were blatantly ripping off U2...and "Black" was tolerable. Otherwise their catalogue is a festering pile of dog vomit. I've listened to this clip and I just don't get it. I suppose I never will. Beddie Wetter is the manifestation of everything that went wrong with music after 1991. What bothers me most about him, Curtis Cobain, and Scooter Weiland, was the outright disrespect they have shown over the years to their hard rock predecessors. Just look it up. Once you've read about their trash talking, you'll want to hunt him down and give him a nuclear wedgie, too.
We have the last laugh, though. Melodic rock is back in full force. In retrospect, grunge will be a blip on the radar screen of rock history, and music students in 50 years will be listening to the classics, not to that soulless, passionless excrement that Seattle force-fed us for most of the 90's.
Well...you say potato...
I think pearl Jam was an incredible band. TEN is , without a doubt, one of the finest rock albums of the last 20 years. And Vedder and company NEVER pissed on their hard rock predecessors. Far from it! They've long hailed Pete Townsend and the WHO, and shown outright love for KISS, and other bands of that ilk. I do remember NIRVANA having a go at Axl Rose at the MTV awards..and I LOVED it! You wanna blame someone for the demise of hard rock? Blame THOSE fuckers! Couldn't even keep it together long enough for three albums (decent ones, anyway- what a steaming pile of crap those USE YOUR ILLUSIONS are!) Those guys coulda been the next Zepplin, and they let ego and excess drag them, and the rest of their hard rock bretheren, right into the pisser...Not since little Anakin Skywalker has a "chosen one" f'ed things up worse!
But I digress. ..no Vedder doesn't have Perry's voice, or Brad Delps (RIP) or that twirp from STEELHEART, but who cares! Neither does Dylan, or Springsteen, or Petty or Seger...gonna debate their relevance? At is's best, their music is primal and soul searing. At it's WORST (and they DO have some shitty stuff) it's masterbatory garbage. But damn, you could almost say that about anyone, couldn't you? Please remember that this is coming from an avid follower of all that is "melodic" and that I have seen damn near every hard rock and hair band multiple times...but I choose to try not to be too much of an old fogey...it ain't all about the past. As Keith Richards once said..."The best rock n roll band in the world is playing right now in a garage in Nebraska, and no one is listening."
Damn...I need a drink!