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…)