So the Wall Street Journal (not the last bastion of cutting-edge cultural hipness, to be sure) thinks that big bad bear markets are responsible for hard rock.
Maybe so, although I’d like to think that I fell in love with Aerosmith in the 80’s because I was 15 and full of hormones, not because someone in Manhattan was losing their shirt on steel shares. Oh, and because of “Dream On,”, still on my favorites list.
Note the last line of the WSJ article, which implies that no great hard rock bands emerged from the dip in 2001….
I beg to differ.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, “Love Burns” from their debut album B.R.M.C. 2001.
You can, if you like, imagine Noir listening to BRMC on the bus…
(Oh, and will someone please let me know if the WSJ article link doesn’t work? It’s not clear to me whether the WSJ blog section is public or subscription-only…)
Hmmm…no hard rock bands in ’01. How about Audioslave? Or Muse? Darn tootin’ they’ll rattle your back teeth or your neighbors’ back teeth. Even better.
I like Audioslave. And Nine Inch Nails. And Pearl Jam (did the WSJ ever hear of Pearl Jam? Tuh). And I still have and play the three Aerosmith albums I first heard in high school (Get Your Wings,Toys in the Attic, and Rocks). We still play Led Zep in our house because Nicola is a big fan. We are not so much down with the Big Hair Metal Gods, but the slinky hard-drinking drug-addict bands? Absolutely (grin). God, I just love music.
In fact, Nicola is blasting Audioslave from her office right now, and I’ve got Aerosmith on headphones.
That’s all. No real information content here, just wanted to share (grin).