The Last Bass Outpost

I can't get over accents.  This is something I'm very opinionated about.  There is so much I could say, I hardly know where to begin.  Starting with English, though, my favorite is the Irish, followed very closely by the Scottish.  As for American accents, I don't much like them.  I'm stuck with speaking one, though.  And not only that, but a Southern accent which is often stigmatized.  Nevertheless, I'm not going to be fake and change it into something else. 

I think I've mentioned this before on another topic.  But here it is again.  When I was in Frankfurt, we ended up going to Munich one day.  As I was sitting in the train station, my mind was registering a huge WTF???  The German in Munich was so different than what I heard in Frankfurt and central Germany as a whole.  To make a long story short, I liked one German accent and disliked another.  Several years ago, when I ordered a German course, I was extremely disappointed that the teacher was speaking Austrian German.  If I'm going to try to learn such a difficult language, it sure as hell isn't going to be Austrian German.  That was actually a very good course, but a waste of money for me personally. 

Getting back to English, though, the bro-country fake Southern accent really does bother me.  I don't think there is anything I could do about it even if I tried hard.  But it isn't just the accent issue, there are many negative things about bro-country which, honestly, I could discuss, but there are others who could do a better job of explaining this.  Obviously, Dave, but possibly others, too. 

But there is one thing I will add, and this is kind of spontaneous.  Real country music makes me feel something.  Much of the time it's very emotional.  Bro-country, simply put, does not. 

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/i-can-will-say-florida-georgia-line-aint-country/

He beat George Jones at his own game on that song, IMO. 

Thankfully, it can be said that neither that Hamburg band nor Dave Dudley had anything to do with bro-country. 

To clarify this bro-country situation, someone could post some examples of it.  But I don't want to do that and I doubt if anyone else does, either.  Goodness knows I wouldn't want to listen to any of it on purpose.  Besides that, that parody video is probably good enough to illustrate what it is anyway.  This topic has been discussed on the forum before, but I don't remember the context at all. 

Not everything is about sex. There is also Rock’n’Roll. And, lest we forget, drugs.

"I've been away for so long
I let you go for so long

It's a nice day to start again
It's a nice day for a white wedding"



It’s user lingo for a cocaine relapse. And the chest-beating, yet darkly nihilist song fits the topic perfectly.

That very well could have been what she was talking about.  We were a separate group of young people and there was an older group not too far away the best I remember.  I can see why she wouldn't want to be talking about drugs.  I remember at the time I wasn't too concerned about not knowing the song's meaning.  I assumed I would surely find out soon enough.  I had absolutely no idea it wouldn't be until 2024. 

I went for years having no idea this song was about drugs.  Paul McCartney said the song was an ode to pot.

Speaking of Billy Idol...

OMG, how petty, Burton and Randy should found a supergroup with John Fogerty and call themselves Nasty Old Men.

Rudy Sarzo played with that current incarnation for a while:

https://bravewords.com/news/bassist-rudy-sarzo-reveals-how-he-ended-up-joining-the-guess-who-very-simple-sass-jordan


What kind of grudge must you hold to devote your life to stopping these guys from making a living?

What kind of grudge?  A big one!!

Wow, he really knows how to play hardball.