Remembering Chuck!!

[lerxstcat]

Dave Grohl's a fan of every metal band around. Apparently. All I hear him play is shitty pop rock of the very worst kind.
I don't hear any Death influence in Grohl's work - I hear Blink 182 and Green Day, yet he paints himself to be some kind of metal fan. It's a fucking joke.

Hey, Rivers Cuomo of Weezer played lead in an Yngwie Malmsteen tribute band in the 80s, and played the stuff well. Too bad there's no money to be made in metal for the vast majority of bands - ask all the signed metal bands that make less than Top 40 bands do.

That FACT sucks, but Grohl is obviously one of those guys who, like Cuomo, decided he'd rather dumb it down to continue to be a pro musician than get a day job and play in his garage for 15 years until metal made a tepid comeback.

I don't blame the guy for playing pop-grunge to be a millionaire and get laid by hot and famous chicks. He'd never get that playing in a death metal band. Sad but true.

[Sinistas]

Blink 182? Green Day? Have you really ever heard the Foo Fighters? They're not like those other two bands at all.

Anyways, Death was awesome, Control Denied was awesome, and Chuck wrote some of the best riffs of all time. The end.

[zeegler]

I'll have to agree. Dave Grohl is an amazing songwriter. He's easily shown himself to be the one from Nirvana that actually has talent.

Anyhow, back to talking about Chuck.

[MartinBarre]

I just can't stand that pop punk type music, and it seems odd when someone doing that claims to be a big metal fan. I heard the Foo Fighters a few times and it's just really lame melodic kids music to my ears. But then I AM a huge Def Leppard fan, so each to his own.

But back to the topic, has anyone seen either of the two Death DVD's? I'm thinking of maybe getting one of them - probably the Live in LA one as the album version of that is amazing.

[zeegler]

Def Leppard = fag rock

:ROTF:

[MartinBarre]

Def Leppard = fag rock

:ROTF:

Yeah, they pretty much are nowadays. But I still love the rockier stuff.

[Sinistas]

There's nothing punk about the Foo Fighters. It's rock music. Poppy and melodic, yes, punk, no.

[emperor_black]

Personally, I dont like Foo fighters too, but they have very catchy songs and I think they are very good musicians.

I assume its not uncommon for band members to "like" some type of music but still play something else for a living. My guitar teacher was a big EVH and Satriani fan and could play a lot of EVH songs. but when I listened to what he was playing for his band on stage, it almost made me laugh out loud. It was some Duran Duran type of stuff. :ROTF: ...Not that there's anything wrong with it.

[zeegler]

There's nothing punk about the Foo Fighters. It's rock music. Poppy and melodic, yes, punk, no.

There's not really anything punk about Green Day or Blink 182 either though is there. They are both commercialized shite. Nothing like what punk used to be.

[Sinistas]

Yeah, but you can definitely tell that those bands are punk influenced whereas FF doesn't come off that way at all, IMO.

Ugh, anyways, enough of this.

SPIRIT CRUSHER!

[lerxstcat]

There's nothing punk about the Foo Fighters. It's rock music. Poppy and melodic, yes, punk, no.

Pat Smear was in The Germs, were they not punk to you? This is like the "troo" metal argument, each person thinks they get to be the arbiter of what is or isn't a certain genre.

I can see a connection to bands like Bad Religion in the Foo Fighters' music. If you don't consider that punk either that's your prerogative, just as it's the prerogative of many other people to consider you wrong.

There are kids today who will argue that Judas Priest isn't even metal. To them I say BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ROTF:

[horns666]

Chuck owned...RIP

Death rules!!

[emperor_black]

There are kids today who will argue that Judas Priest isn't even metal.

[horns666]

+1

[Sinistas]

Pat Smear was in The Germs, were they not punk to you? This is like the "troo" metal argument, each person thinks they get to be the arbiter of what is or isn't a certain genre.

I can see a connection to bands like Bad Religion in the Foo Fighters' music. If you don't consider that punk either that's your prerogative, just as it's the prerogative of many other people to consider you wrong.

There are kids today who will argue that Judas Priest isn't even metal. To them I say BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :ROTF:

I think their music is more straight-up rock than anything else, that's all I'm saying. I'm not putting any "troo" argument in at all. This shouldn't have come up in the first place, this thread is shit now.