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Just thinking about Ozzy's passing and why it feels like the end of something, or the beginning of the end.

(Okay, let me preface this by saying I do not keep up with current rock music. Once in a while, a punk or hardcore band. With everything else, my interest pretty much stops in the mid-to-late 90's.)

We're losing all the people who had actual personality. They were INTERESTING PEOPLE.

Not trying to pick on Taylor Swift (and she's a pop singer anyway) but what's the most outrageous thing about her? She doesn't like Trump? She's had a lot of boyfriends?

Dave Mustaine dedicated a song to the IRA! In Ireland!

IN *NORTHERN* IRELAND!!!

MTV used be like "BREAKING NEWS: Axl Rose just said something" and it would be like this monumental thing, like Axl was addressing the nation. "Izzy's Izzy, I dunno..." in his giant AXL sneakers.

I'm just old. I'm sure Ronnie Ratke is fascinating.

Jelly Roll has no personality?

People rag on Marq Torien but if he does an interview, I watch it, because I know he's going to say something insane. I don't know what his deal is, if he's nuts, if he's just pure ego, but his interviews are like Art Bell calls. Like, DO we live in a world where BulletBoys are going to tour with AC/DC? A Marq Torien interview will have you questioning REALITY.

I think everything's very sanitized now, very marketed. Marq Torien might say some odd stuff, but it's human. It's not through the filter of a media coach.

I don't like their music, but I love Oasis' I don't give a F*ck attitude.

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 5:21 pm Jelly Roll has no personality?

What does he say that's interesting? I don't know a lot about him. I don't think he has any viewpoints that aren't already in my face, everywhere, 24 hours a day. God and Jesus and small-town, conversative values? All fine but I grew up in Iowa, I wouldn't take time to listen to MORE of that.

Axl Rose put himself into a coma, was on his way to the Light, thought "I have more to do," said "NO!!!!!!," then woke himself up from the overdose-induced coma with his own ambitions.

I guarantee Jelly Roll has the exact same story and it's the most boring thing you've ever heard in your life.

Jelly Roll's an interesting case. I look at him and think "Holy shit, a fat G.G. Allin, I'm in for a ride," and you hear him and it's like music for Texas football moms.

Post Malone looks like a straight-up CRUST PUNK. And then his music is like a Rastafarian smoked PCP and fell asleep inside a computer.

HOW MANY RIOTS HAVE EITHER OF THESE MEN STARTED? That is the question.

When was the last real big concert riot? Because people don't care about music anymore. People were willing to GO TO PRISON for Axl Rose.

Rock is dead
Music is dead
move on

CM Punk career is dead

Here's what I want to go back to, here's how we truly make America great again:

Make political figures boring as shit again, make pop singers and rock stars controversial again.

On the Republican ticket, I want whoever we have that's going to be George Bush and Dan Quayle. On the Democratic ticket, Al Gore and whoever the fuck he ran with. THAT'S IT. We need the human equivalents of plain oatmeal. WAY TOO MUCH PERSONALITY RIGHT NOW.

And then in music, we need Madonna, Axl, Ozzy, Lemmy, James Brown.

The deal will be that we all stop hassling them when they say insane shit.

You see, we flipped it, and that's why it's all falling apart.

Chip Z'Hoy wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 5:56 pm Here's what I want to go back to, here's how we truly make America great again:

Make political figures boring as shit again, make pop singers and rock stars controversial again.

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You see, we flipped it, and that's why it's all falling apart.

You nailed it. Conservative, retirement age rock stars didn't exist at the time politicians didn't act as entertainers on social media all the time. He'll, there was no f%#king social media!

The World we knew is dead. All we can do is tell people how it was.

When rockstar comes along with an awesome personality
The oldASS rock fans do everything to tear them down- like a sport- then cry that no rockstars personalities exist.
It’s the sad bitter lame fans of Rush- Led Zeppelin generation that are so bitter and sad
DJ Ashba came along - everyone turned on him out of jealousy and envy

Rock personalities is dead- the fans killed it

That’s why it’s important to invest your time into something awesome like Big Bronson Reed

The world turned on Jesse Camp- let everyone suffer
Every rock fan is like CM Punk in 2025- lame- too old to be around- sad as f*ck-
Every old ass rock fan ==CM Crybaby

Social media plays a role in it. Back when all we had were Metal Edge and Creem, you saw glimpses of mostly fictional stories about artists. It was exciting to see what crazy thing was said or done. Then MTV came along and gave us more live interviews and sound bites. With the overload of social media, everything gets homogenized bc there is so much of it. Every random picture I've seen of Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift in the last 5-10 years looks the same. Every interview Gene and Paula have given in the last 25 years has been the same. Many of these new hard rock bands look and sound the same. And we see it over and over and over. Their mysteriousness and personality get distilled down to something uninteresting.

Yes I remember....

Jimmy Page living in his Satanic Castle doing more dope than Jerry. Writing riffs like Kashmir.

Fucker made a deal at midnight with Old Scratch.


We will never get music like that again.

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daveg wrote: ↑Sat Aug 02, 2025 5:33 pm I don't like their music, but I love Oasis' I don't give a F*ck attitude.

They have also been around for over 30 years!