The White Stripes Announce Their Break-Up

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 8:51 pm

The White Stripes Announce Their Break-Up

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... p-20110202

onegunguitar · Post by **onegunguitar** » Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:33 pm

Damn....I may have trouble sleeping tonight because of this......................NOT!!!!!!!!!

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:22 am

Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.

CMOR · Post by **CMOR** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:35 am

I've been waiting for this day since they got popular. AMEN!

UNEARTHA7XMatt · Post by **UNEARTHA7XMatt** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:05 pm

YAY! I FUCKING HATE THIS BAND!

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 2:35 pm

I never really listened to them to make a sound opinion.

lynch1 · Post by **lynch1** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:05 pm

same as when Nirvana was done, no great loss.

UNEARTHA7XMatt · Post by **UNEARTHA7XMatt** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 4:52 pm

lynch1 wrote:same as when Nirvana was done, no great loss.

This I do NOT agree with but to each their own!

RobTheDrummer · Post by **RobTheDrummer** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:49 pm

bassist_25 wrote:Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.

Quote of the year!

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:31 pm

RobTheDrummer wrote:
bassist_25 wrote:Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.
Quote of the year!

Who got the quote of the year last year?

dbdrummer89 · Post by **dbdrummer89** » Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:21 pm

bassist_25 wrote:Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.

Hey now, she's a great drummer...
...In fact, she's so good that she doesn't even have to keep time like most "mainstream" drummers.

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 1:50 pm

lynch1 wrote:same as when Nirvana was done, no great loss.

lolwut?

Oh I get it, cuz you're george lynch. I'd be salty too.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:14 pm

Pretty funny. I never cared for Nirvana either after the first single, but still got a chortle.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:21 pm

Hey, don't diss George Lynch! He is an awesome guitar player. *Sticks tongue out*

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:36 pm

I don't think it was a diss. If you were in a hard-rock band (it wasn't called 'hairband' yet) when Nirvana hit, you experienced one of the quickest, most all-encompassing, turn-on-a-dime changes in rock & roll history. You didn't just fade out of style, you had the rug yanked out from under you. We went from larger-than-life cocaine-fueled gigs you could see from space, to heroin-induced shoe-gazing in the three and a half minutes it took to play Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It had to be. You can't really blame Nirvana... blame Poison and Slaughter and Bon Jovi for taking something aggressive and edgy and turning it into something your Mom hummed while doing the dishes. Hard rock had become a cartoon world.
George Lynch, who I think is an innovator and very tasteful, had one major problem: Don Dokken. Lynch wanted to push the envelope. Dokken wanted a Porche.

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:39 pm

OOPS, Rockpage burped, I double-posted, and it won't let me delete. Carry on.

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 6:57 pm

songsmith wrote:I don't think it was a diss. If you were in a hard-rock band (it wasn't called 'hairband' yet) when Nirvana hit, you experienced one of the quickest, most all-encompassing, turn-on-a-dime changes in rock & roll history. You didn't just fade out of style, you had the rug yanked out from under you. We went from larger-than-life cocaine-fueled gigs you could see from space, to heroin-induced shoe-gazing in the three and a half minutes it took to play Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It had to be. You can't really blame Nirvana... blame Poison and Slaughter and Bon Jovi for taking something aggressive and edgy and turning it into something your Mom hummed while doing the dishes. Hard rock had become a cartoon world.
George Lynch, who I think is an innovator and very tasteful, had one major problem: Don Dokken. Lynch wanted to push the envelope. Dokken wanted a Porche.

I know it wasn't a diss, I was trying to be funny

I agree that Don Dokken was holding holding George Lynch back. If you look at some of the guitar players you will see that - Other Example is Andy Timmons. He is an incredible guitar player. You listen to him now and you think there is no way the guy played for Danger Danger.

Once they get out of that bubble and show their real potential, it just blows your mind. Richie Sambora is the same way. I used to hate him, but after listening to him on some shrapnel solo albums he did, I find him to be quite good as well.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:00 pm

songsmith wrote:I don't think it was a diss. If you were in a hard-rock band (it wasn't called 'hairband' yet) when Nirvana hit, you experienced one of the quickest, most all-encompassing, turn-on-a-dime changes in rock & roll history. You didn't just fade out of style, you had the rug yanked out from under you. We went from larger-than-life cocaine-fueled gigs you could see from space, to heroin-induced shoe-gazing in the three and a half minutes it took to play Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It had to be. You can't really blame Nirvana... blame Poison and Slaughter and Bon Jovi for taking something aggressive and edgy and turning it into something your Mom hummed while doing the dishes. Hard rock had become a cartoon world.
George Lynch, who I think is an innovator and very tasteful, had one major problem: Don Dokken. Lynch wanted to push the envelope. Dokken wanted a Porche.

...and I think we need this same musical enema with metalcore now. It was cool and edgy when it first became mainstream, but now that scene has become cookie cutter with 10,000 bands sounding alike. I wonder what the next trend in rock will be.

On topic, for the record, I always thought Jack White had a good ear for a hook. I just couldn't get past the horrible drumming. And it was never an issue of me having a bias for them not having a bass player, because Sleater Kinney rox my sox. Yeah, I spelled "rocks" and "socks" with Xs. Whatcha gonna do about it?

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:47 pm

I liked local H and they had no bassist.

Yeah, SongSmith nailed it.

Paul- I agree with the whole metalcore crap thing too. Listen to Madball Integrity and Hatebreed, fuck the rest. Ok, Killswitch Engage gets a pass too but that's it.

I think the new "Rock" is this wannabe folk stuff they call "Indie" for some weird reason, because it's anything but.

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