“I am the man in the box
“Buried in my s**t...
“Won’t...you...come...and...save me...?”
Posted on 09/05/2012 10:53:46 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
I think what has happened today with the Obama campaign moving their highly and arrogantly touted downsized Thursday acceptance speech from a football stadium ready for 65,000 people down to an arena able to fit less than 20,000 due to stage size and other platforms on the floor, is easily the DNC's hair rock moment.
This is a moment where bands like Def Leppard, Warrant, RATT, Cinderella, Whitesnake,Extreme, Slaughter, Great White,White Lion, Dokken, and others were put on notice that a huge shift had taken place and that shift was called "grunge rock". It's as if Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, and Pearl Jam just walked into Charlotte, N.C. and said..."You might have had the ability to play this place 4 years ago but you aren't headliners any longer...we are...ya gotta go."
We are witnessing a shift today.
Those old bands like Def Leppard which in context back in 1991-92 could say hey 4 years ago we were selling out stadiums on our own with no opening act needed! Now the Democrats like Def Leppard today have to bring out a few old acts to bring extra people to fill the seats to just get a variety of people to hear them.
Jimmy Carter? Impeached Former President Bill Clinton?
It's like Def Leppard a band who sold 80 million records worldwide bringing Gary Glitter (pedophile) on the bill with them and Great White (See: Station House Nightclub Fire). Both of them are pretty toxic historically and yet stand for various reasons as still accepted by their peers in music and politics.
Obama in 2008 was what Def Leppard was in 1987-88 with Hysteria. Huge. Bigger than huge.
Now Obama has been told by his agent, his manager, and the tour promoter that they can't even give the seats away and it's time to break out the excuses. The more "intimate" evening experience. Obama is going acoustic basically which is what a lot of hair rock bands did towards the end of their run.
Obama is done...and he knows it. His people know it.
One of the greatest quotes in rock history came from the late Jani Lane of Warrant when asked when was it he knew his career was in trouble and he said "I walked into my label's office and where our "Cherry Pie" album cover hung on the wall in the entrance just 12 months before was replaced by an Alice In Chains cover for their new record...I knew everything had changed and we were done."
Obama is no longer a stadium draw. He is down to an arena act and next it will be playing host to crowds at theaters and county parks and fairgrounds.
When you have to trot out one of the worst rated Presidents in all of history in Carter and Bill Clinton...an impeached and disbarred former President...you are out of ideas..and you are swimming with scum who sold this country out numerous times during their own terms.
Barry sees the writing on the wall. He knows North Carolina ain't in his column this time around and he knows he probably has lost Virginia as well.
Get ready folks...Romney is about to dump a whole lot of money into TV ads and other campaign blitzes starting next week. Money is one thing Obama had plenty of in 2008, the money isn't even close this time. Their supporters are much poorer than they were in 2008 and they have managed to piss off investors to the point of never trusting a word he says again.
Now let's see if the mainstream media turns on Obama like MTV did on hair rock in the early 90s.
I moved this one to Editorial too.
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“You know that English is the primary language used on this forum , right?”
“You do know that English is the primary language used on this forum, right?”
Oh yeah, well ... “ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!” :-P
I love you.
Romney eats donuts?
I reckon y’all knows we ain’t speakin’ nutin’ but American on this here forum. Aiite?
That is going straight to my facebook page!
I went overseas in 1991. Left Wash DC listening to WWDC 101.1 FM with the Greaseman, two for Tuesday, heavy head banger music, lots of Hair on the Air.
Didn't get stateside again until August of 93 when my Dad passed away and I spent 6 weeks helping my Mom pack up and move... Music-wise, I was like WTF happened (despite my zombie walk thru those weeks due to Dear old Dad being gone)?
I wonder just how profound people realize the culture changed over those two years. I left in June 1991 right after Desert Storm, George HW Bush at 91% approval, a vibrant, proud America with a Soviet Union and communism collapsing...
Came back in August 1993 to find Clintoon president, people ashamed of America, and hair rockers GONE and replaced by a bunch of smelly, melancholy hippies in their place!
Overseas we fought to get Rush Limbaugh on the Armed Forces Radio Network and won that in 1996. I used to open a cold one (Rush came on at 6:00 PM in Germany) kick back and listen to real wisdom. Came back (for good in 1997) just in time to witness the whole Lewinsky/impeachment thing and of course, Free Republic. My life hasn't been the same since.
Obama is just becoming more selective in his appeal.
Hair metal: Blue-collar guys wanting to look rich and flashy
Grunge: White-collar college guys wanting to look blue-collar (i.e. lumberjacks)
“ROMANES EUNT DOMUS!” :-P
“Romney eats donuts?”
No, it says “Romans go home!!!”
I think it’s better if it says “Romney eats donuts”.
“I think it’s better if it says “Romney eats donuts”.”
That whole grammar thing reminded me of a Monty Python skit in “Life of Brian”.
Now go clean out those Deathclaws before I go and nuke Megaton!
I recommend the Tesla Armor. But I’m in New Vegas at the moment and can’t find any.
I’m too old for this thread.
I’ll translate this as: The Beatles waving bye bye to Bobby Vinton.
Another great political slogan: “Carthago delenda est!”
“Music-wise, I was like WTF happened (despite my zombie walk thru those weeks due to Dear old Dad being gone)?”
As a hardcore Steve Vai fan, one thing I can say for the hair band era is that it produced some incredible musicians. But when Grunge hit, it ALSO mirrored the ‘everybody gets a participation trophy” ethos that was gaining ground back then.
The majority of grunge rockers were talentless on their chosen instruments. Sure there was the occasional Cantrell, but Cobain was pathetic. And if ANYONE brings up Morello and calls him a guitarist, there is no hope for them. So in a nutshell, everyone with access to a pawn shop ‘became’ a guitarist overnight and spewed their victimhood.
It took until the recent resurgence of metal before anyone seemed to take actual playing seriously again.
“I am the man in the box
“Buried in my s**t...
“Won’t...you...come...and...save me...?”
Why did John Kerry and “Rooster” just pop in my head? ;)
Grunge sucked (Oh whoa is me, FML, My daddy’s fault). Glam/hair metal WAY better. (Party, Chicks, etc.)
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kind of like the difference between cocaine (hair bands) and heroin (grunge).
What is the plural of Roman? Good, now write it a hundred times.
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