[kj] (OT)Rammstein

[Brendan]

Why would you waste your time with glossy metal mags just out of interest?
Hardly a proper cross-section of the metal community...

Now THIS is what metal is all about (found the link on Alex's website :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiVMrWMHko



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> Do real bands still exist , dont all bands to a certain  degree put on an

> act for the consumer ? Every time that I look into a glossy metal mag,

> theres just endless pages of fat bald blokes (no offence Rob) with white

> make-up on , pulling scary faces and making the sign of the devil . And

> they all try to outdo each other with how scary they can look .

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>   Dont all bands have a certain degree of manufacturedness about them?

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> Message Received: Aug 22 2007, 07:38 PM

> From: Devacor at aol.com

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> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT)Rammstein

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> In a message dated 8/22/2007 1:37:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,

> lennonka at gmail.com writes:

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> Hi Mr. Back!

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> Yeh, I love them - in fact, it was the first harder-rocking band which

> I heard in my life.

> And they keep rocking!

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> Greets

> Lennonka, CzD

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> I met this awesome German girl here (Wash D.C.) who was doing a stint for

> her P.H.D. - she was in the music scene and all. I asked her "what about

> Rammstien"- I could feel my points just going down the drain as soon as it

> left my mouth.

>  She wasn't like "What the hell" but basically its like they don't even

> register- she couldn't even comment good or bad--kind of like maybe how

> Korn would be here to us- cant bash them and say they are bad, its just

> like a no comment...

> I think I read somewhere (or maybe heard on this list) that they basically

> were just rocker guys looking to do some band and were looking for a genre

> to plug into and  - they were looking into a "Chili Peppers" template but

> decided against it- Somehow they came up with the Rammstien bit-

> similar to the "Garbage" band who were just A and R people who decided to

> do a band and just did a paint by numbers look the right way, have the

> right sound, say the right things type generic alt rock band (or whatever

> you want to call them)-

> though I do like Rammstien I also realize they cant have total heart so It

> takes a little away from it all...

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