Undying

"the d(e)ranged", I'm sorry for you but I don't play the songs of Floyd with the split guitar, I spend hours searching for my sound, creating my style, as well as loosening my fingers with the metronome. Looks like Satriani has only done that his whole life. I’m the one who chuckles when I hear how shitty his songs sound... it's almost there he’s got some MIDI tracks underneath... but who cares, right? When I showed how good I am at moving my fingers... pathetic.

Reviews that I mostly agree with. Nothing special about these Audioslave, but they are honest and have a certain style. The conclusion is absolutely right: always looking back is for fools; in music, you should only do it to aim forward. Maybe explain this to Ademarro, who has a "slightly" distorted view of art. So, after your friends Whitesnake (wow, what a band, stale and pompous right after they came out), should all the musicians in the world just go home? Should everyone have stopped because music had already given everything? What a shitty, neo-classical conservative mindset, indeed.

The umpteenth prank? Heh heh, jokesters...

Jettojet, argue your statement then. Why shouldn't Gilmour and Malmsteen be compared? Aren't they both guitarists? If you put it on the plane of completely different musical genres, then the whole discussion built in this series of comments to the review couldn't have taken place, since grunge and hair metal (more appropriate than glam) are two genres that don't fit together at all. I speak of Malmsteen because I’ve seen him live, and to call it music really requires a lot of goodness. I'm not against technique, in fact, but the problem arises when it becomes an end instead of an expressive means.

Ignore the typos—inevitable when you have to respond to so much nonsense.

-"Lift the damn thing." And about Axl Rose, whom I consider a great artist, he knew how to react differently from Cobain to a shitty childhood: not all of us are the same, not everyone has the same personality. Cobain is not my idol, but at least he was someone who knew how to express himself authentically, maybe even too much. So I have the utmost respect for him. And then there's Che on t-shirts, the rich mocking the poor... such ridiculous stereotypes. So all musicians are making fun of us, since they all earn much more than we do? What kind of bullshit talk is that? It’s not said that just because someone makes a lot of money, they have to turn into a capitalist monster and all that crap. Pearl Jam, another band that I don’t love much but respect, has been doing a lot for the environmental cause for years. So what? Should they be blamed for that? Just because they’re loaded with cash? Think about it, people, think.

Thank you for your willingness to engage, Enrico. Thank goodness there are still people who know what that means. I've read so much nonsense in the anonymous comments that I don't even know where to start in responding.... You are so stubborn and obtuse that you think grunge, with its Cobain, Vedder, etc., is something I listen to continuously, when in fact, if you had read carefully, you would have understood that I DO NOT LIKE IT. A sign of maturity is recognizing the merits of things you don't like when they have been important, if not fundamental. Do you want to deny that grunge was fundamental? Do you want to deny that punk was fundamental? You just make me laugh because it's obvious how full of clichés you are and how little you understand about music. My reference to Robin Finck, former guitarist of Nine Inch Nails and current of Guns, was just to illustrate that a technically skilled guitarist can choose, in the name of ARTISTIC RESEARCH (a concept unknown to your bands that only wanted to break through, they didn't want to create art - IT'S VERY DIFFERENT), to express themselves in an alternative, minimalist way. Is this worse music? Oh yes, how can three notes from David Gilmour be worse than three hundred notes from Malmsteen—the difference being that one has soul, while the other is an exercise for the fingers). Trent Reznor could play Mozart's works flawlessly at six years old; if you listen to his albums, you'll see how he doesn't flaunt his incredible pianistic talent from a technical standpoint. As for Dave Grohl, poor ignorant ones: one of the grooviest drummers in the world. But look how strange, the most sought-after drummer lately for studio recording sessions... could it be because he’s a human metronome? Could it be because he has an incredible drive? But have you even tried to listen to the latest album by Killing Joke? Or the latest by Nine Inch Nails for that matter? You're just filled with clichés, kids. Music is much more than technique or appearance; music is soul, research, heart: all things that your pseudo-glam groups didn’t even trade for money.

I love this man.

The blackberry is a go-go for a good romp. And violent sapphism is always welcome, even if it's fake...Amen.

Dear Enrico, you are way off..."Do you know why grunge and alternative bands don't have decent solos in their songs? Because they can't do them." The point is that they DON'T GIVE A DAMN about doing them, not that they can't do them (Would Dave Grohl not know how to play a killer drum solo? And Robin Finck? Let's not even go there...). They don’t care because they have a different, more modern conception of music; the time for showy technical displays is over, dear Enrico. Grunge, a movement that, by the way, doesn't even align too well with my tastes, was a fundamental turning point like punk was in the '70s, which kicked the pseudo-glam crap (let's not use the word glam for Mötley Crüe, please—because otherwise, where do you put Ziggy Stardust? It’s pure garbage, not glam) that had infested the scene like leprosy. Cobain wasn't pretending to be poor; he didn't give a damn about money because he was a man torn apart in mind and body since childhood, surrounded by vampires and a real bitch (see his ex), so devastated inside that not even the birth of his daughter (to whom he could not give himself because he was no longer there) allowed him to see the light. So, let's leave the barroom reductions to someone else, please. As for the Guns, there’s a whole different story—often lumped together with Mötley Crüe and Poison and shit like that, they actually had something that truly made them great—namely punk soul, along with the hard rock balls. They were real in their excesses, unlike many others.