#hard rock era

[remanedur]

tumblr music survey

because this has come up with a few friends before, i am curious -- in the replies or tags, can you list:

what you consider the average song length

what you consider 'long' for a song, and 'short' for one

a few genres you listen to the most/consider your favorite

[jarofalicesgrunge]

[miss-star-dust]

RIP Remus Lupin and Sirius Black, you'd have loved going on dates to the Hardrock Café and nerding out over the memorabilia

[sunburnacoustic]

According to his new book, Serj Tankian from System of a Down almost signed Muse to his own record label back in 2003. He'd been a fan of theirs since the OOS days, having shared festival bills with Muse in Europe, and he really loved Absolution when it came out and noticed that Maverick hadn't even released it in the US, and wanted to try and buy Muse out from Maverick's control. Maverick asked for half a million dollars to transfer Muse (which is something I fucking HATE about labels and deals: they refuse to release your work and also won't let you leave, and this is still happening), which Serj couldn't cough up on his own, so he tried to convince Sony, who signed SOAD, to sign Muse instead. Sony hemmed and hawed and said they wanted to wait to hear Muse's next release before squaring up the money, but by the next year, all of Maverick's artist had been bought out by various record labels, including Warner Bros. proper, who picked up Muse and finally released Absolution, a year late in the US (2004, which I realised later is why you see some sources list its release date as 2004. The US release date). Interestingly enough to me, Maverick was a Warner subsidiary to begin with.

Serj regrets losing out on signing Muse, not so much from a financial standpoint, but because they were a cool band he liked, but I wonder how things may have panned out for Muse had they stayed indie for another few years? I imagine Warner worked out quite well for them: they sold out their first US tour in a long time in the autumn of 2004, headlined Glastonbury, were invited to play a Live 8 show, and of course, when Black Holes and Revelations came out in 2006 (Sony's loss), they exploded all over the alternative 'mainstream'. It doesn't seem like they've had much, if any, creative interference from Warner either, except maybe them suggesting the greatest hits thing that instigated Muse writing Will Of The People instead. Overall, fairly harmonious.

Things turned out alright for them!

[elscaptive]

Words are not enough to express how beautiful and badass Slash is...

[valeriearmani1]

marauders as mcr tweets

sirius: who tf is burning down my kitchen

remus: making breakfast for my beautiful wife❤️

[mindofotherstars]

i just found out these pictures were taken in my country oslo, norway 1992. they were doing an autograph session to promote revenge. i will NEVER get over how good revenge era is and it’s even worse i wasn’t even alive when it happened @sluttery-withoutshame @ericsingerisababycat @ghostinyourface @probably2zjeb

[rhapsodynew]

January 22, 1967 - Rolling Stones in the role of a Dressing Room before performing in the nomination "Sunday Night at the London Palladium".

"... Another crack in the armor, according to some, was our decision to perform on the TV show Sunday Night at the London Palladium on January 22, a bastion of all entertainment artists – ballad performers, jugglers, comedians and actors of the conversational genre. The huge audience for this show was mostly adults, as opposed to the contingent we usually gathered, but Andrew felt that we could no longer limit our audience to teenagers and had to spread the net wider. For 1,500 pounds, we had to perform an unedited “Let's Spend the Night Together” plus “Ruby Tuesday”; we recorded the instrumental parts in advance, and Mick sang live. "It's not that we weren't able to play live," Keith said, "we just weren't sure if the studio would produce the sound we wanted." We were seen by viewers in nine and a quarter million homes; we had not seen such a huge audience for more than a year - Palladium occupied the top spot in the weekly list of the 20 most popular programs. However, as always, we sparked a general protest about something that had nothing to do with our music. The traditional aspect of the Palladium has always been the finale of this show, in which all its participants finally lined up on a rotating platform to wave their hands to the audience and viewers. We couldn't stand this pop show–off- we've been fighting it for the last 4 years. We said that we would not go to this turntable at the end and got into an altercation with TV producer Albert Locke and his colleagues.

Andrew insisted that we go, Mick violently kicked back; Tito Burns, our agent, the former leader of the dance group, steeped in the traditions of show business up to his ears, said that it would not hurt anyone. Albert Locke angrily ran out to come up with an alternative ending, and Andrew, seeing a group in front of him that he was unable to break, slammed the door in a rage. It's strange: how could Andrew, who himself fused our non-conformist image, seriously expect us to line up in this farce? Charlie cursed Palladium with his last words: "I was against participating in this show from the very beginning, I don't understand why we went there at all," he grumbled. "No one has shown anything worthwhile on such shows yet, except Sammy Davis Jr., and he can perform even right on the street." In addition to the arguments and gossip that filled the newspapers for several weeks, there were even funny statements. The level of these discussions is clearly visible in the following example: "Of course, everyone who has the honor to speak at Sunday Night at the London Palladium is obliged to observe decency and dress respectably," wrote a reader from Essex in the Daily Mirror. "Truly, the Rolling Stones have lowered Britain below the baseboard." Bill Wyman - "Stone Alone" (1990)

Mick Jagger talks to manager Andrew Oldham after refusing to enter the rotating stage.

[prayaway00]

las vegas is lowkey a flop if ur under 21 ngl

[jarofalicesgrunge]

Alice in Chains during the "Sea of Sorrow" photo shoot (1991)

📸Marty Temme

[mustardiscool]

man another fire fit from t rez (most likely between ‘92 and ‘96)

[pookiepiastri]

Now Logan is stronger than me bc if I was in his situation I would start using my car as a weapon

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

AC/DC - Highway to Hell

[big-low-t]

Aerosmith were my first favorite band. I heard their "Rocks" album played all the way through on the radio one night back in the late 70s. (Yeah, radio used to be cool) From that moment on every time I scraped up enough money I bought one of their albums until I had them all. And every time they released an album, up to "Done With Mirrors," I would buy it. Yeah, I even bought the Joe Perry Project albums, the first two had some great tunes. But I became very disappointed and lost interest in Aerosmith once the mid 80s hit and they brought in outside song writing help. That's when they polished their sound (too much for me) and began pumping out power ballads (yuck!). But it was nice to see them get success a second time around and I was glad to have caught them live in concert once somewhere in the middle of the 80s.

But these guys, in the 70s, fully opened the music nerd door for me. My first musical obsession... first band I geeked out over. Joe Perry was always the coolest. Steven Tyler's voice so easy to recognize. I had the poster from inside the Rocks album on my wall at home and took it to college with me until it finally gave up, fell apart, and did not survive the trip to my first apartment after college. I believe a Bad Brains poster took its place at that point in time.

I still listen to their 70s stuff quite often. I even toss on "Rock In A Hard Place" from the early 80s occasionally. "Rocks" always was and still is one of my all time favorite records.

Although it is sad to see my favorite bands fade away, I am very glad they spent a lot of time keeping me company. I suppose they will continue to do so until i either can't hear anymore or I'm dead!

Tim

[elscaptive]

Duff + Cigarettes = Perfection

The only guy I'll let smoke near me

Probably offer him the cigarettes myself :))

[delreyisgod]