Connor ,'Not Fade Away'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
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The best and easiest way to convey his talent is to take a look at his drumkit for The Black Parade (third album, rather conceptual and interestingly experimental from a drumming point of view). That is a ridiculous collection of drums.
I'll take Mo Tucker over him any day.
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Toro shreds like Slash. That may be my affection and his hair talking.
MCR, when doing The Black Parade, put on a seriously awesome theatrical live show. Sadly, this tour, they didn't hit Seattle, so I cannot speak as to their more intimate shows.
I'm going to die. It's gonna be awesome!
Oh, my god, me too! I have call at 6:00 tomorrow for a 7:30 concert, and the fucking Rorem is so atonal, and the basses keep pulling us flat because they can't hold the tonic...
Okay, not the same thing.
(Oh, and my new Docs are kickass because I was on my feet for 7 hours last night and it barely hurt at all.)
Shoe victory!
I'm going to die. It's gonna be awesome!
Enjoy!! And huzzah for Docs!
Dana, you're not singing Miss Julie, are you? (The only Rorem I know...)
Sadly, this tour, they didn't hit Seattle, so I cannot speak as to their more intimate shows.
Still drama-laden, and wicked fun.
Dana, you're not singing Miss Julie, are you?
Nope. Some psalms and shit. It's actually a bunch of mid-20th century American composers, which I really like.
Take a nerdy kid from Jersey with a wicked voice and a penchant for horror, maudlin optimism, and Freddy Mercury-esque stage theatrics. Put his dorky little Jersey scene-king brother on the bass. His friend on lead guitar shreds like Van Halen. The rhythm guitarist was airlifted in from a Jersey thrash punk band. Top that with a Chicago kid with a kit the size of a small suburb, who beats on it like they're making it illegal.
This is the best explanation of MCR's sound I've read in a while, and needed repeating.
MCR are not a goth band. Gerard is, at heart, a comic & gaming geek from the fringes of the goth scene, and a lot of MCR's aesthetic is very gothy, but the band itself? Wouldn't be labeled as goth.
a lot of MCR's aesthetic is very gothy,
Ah -- that's where I was taking my assumption from. Bad Teppy! No bandom!
Tep, I had some YouTube links earlier in the thread, which will give you a good idea of the FOB sound.
And I can hook ya up with some of those wacky Cobras, iffin you need. Thankfully, there's a lot of FBR (Fueled By Ramen) stuff available officially on YouTube, so it's a good way to check them out.
It's like if you threw carnivale and a rave in bed together and had a fast-paced acid-tongued baby with a predeliction for eyeliner and disaffected teenage sarcasm.
This makes me wish I actually liked Panic, since I don't really.
I described The Hush Sound as "sociopathic piano rock."
Oh, how perfect.
Stage Ray by the booze.
Hee. Based on that, I could *totally* find someone in any given venue.
Take a nerdy kid from Jersey with a wicked voice and a penchant for horror...
I want to amalgamate aggregate all of these descriptions on my lj, w/ credit of course, but I'm probably too lazy. Someone else should do it so I can link.
Have fun, shrift! Good luck with the smooshfest.
Well, to confuse the "MCR - Goth or Not?" question even more: the explanation I gave is how most goths (who don't outright cross themselves and spit when MCR are mentioned) feel. Personally, I think the band falls neatly into the goth-punk spectrum, and are just as much of a goth band as, say, The Cure or Sisters of Mercy. (Both goth icons, both have denied being goth.)
There was a special on MTV2 a couple of years ago that was for the big Rhino Records goth box release. The two hosts? Peter Murphy (sainted goth icon) and Gerard Way. At the beginning of the show, the expression on Gerard's face was pretty much holy shit! Peter Murphy! I'm sitting next to Peter Murphy!
(There's an interview with Gerard I've got somewhere in which the reporter mentions the gothy types that show up at MCR shows and asks, "So which do you prefer? Mall goths or gutter goths?" Gerard's replied "Elegant club goths, actually". He knows there's a difference. OH MY HEART.)