12-18-2004, 10:14 PM
Doc,Dec 10 2004, 05:35 PM Wrote:You know, it's better this way, for a rock star to die in some violent horrible death like a murder. It's all part and parcel of being a rock star. This is probably the best they could hope for. People will remember them as a musician, not some fat washed up doped up loser that chickened out and took their own life or overdosed and bought their way into the Dead Rock Stars Club.
He will be remembered for getting cut down in his prime, through no fault of his own. And people will argue and fuss for years to come on how good he could have been... Making him a legend that grows with time.
That's a whole lot better then being found dead with half a turd hanging out your arse on the toilet... Or being fat, dead, bloated, and stewing in your own sewage in a bath tub after you overdosed. Or growing old and becoming a joke like some of the geriatric rockers we have now.
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Interesting way to look at it Doc...better to go out in a blaze of glory than flicker out like a candle? What I do think is more of a problem is indeed the "geriatric" bands though. Hell, even Metallica is showing its age. I mean really, compare their first few albums and the swill they've been putting out lately (guitars are admiditly still amazing from a technical standpoint, though not as heavy as they once were. Lars is just a damn hack though)
I dunno...with the excesses of their youth when a band ages enough it just seems like they are not the same. And it's because they *arent.* It's a rare person that has the endurance at 50 that they had at 20 and their percieved image suffers. Old-time fans watch the steady decline while kids just see them as a bunch of tired old fogeys.
Maybe the best option, well the best without unnesicary murder, would be for these bands to see when they have already peaked and bow out gracefully. But that has to be one of the most difficult things for anyone to do...to see that what your doing is just a shell of former greatness.
A shame really...that things are the way they are.
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He's an old-fashioned Amish cyborg with no name. She's a virginal nymphomaniac fairy princess married to the Mob. Together, they fight crime!
The Blizzcon Class Discussion:
Crowd: "Our qq's will blot out the sun"
Warlocks: "Then we will pewpew in the shade"