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The Bass Zone / Re: R.I.P. Mike Starr of Alice in Chains
« on: March 10, 2011, 09:14:03 AM »
Hair metal was well behind its "best used before"-date as early as 1987 - that Whitesnake vid of Still of the Night was pretty much the nadir of hard rock as an "honest", down to earth music form. Five guys made up to look like their girlfriends, miming like the Chippendales to music none of them had recorded or written (Coverdale excepted) and with Adrian Vandenberg pretending to play synth lines with a violin bow. Ouch. Come back Jimmy Page, all was forgiven and forgotten at that moment.
And I'm not talking about the song as such which you might or might not like for all its vocal histrionics, hamfisted lyrics and rehashed Zep riffage. That vid was the triumph of form over content.
And I'm not talking about the song as such which you might or might not like for all its vocal histrionics, hamfisted lyrics and rehashed Zep riffage. That vid was the triumph of form over content.