The White Stripes Announce Their Break-Up

[moxham123]

The White Stripes Announce Their Break-Up

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... p-20110202

[onegunguitar]

Damn....I may have trouble sleeping tonight because of this......................NOT!!!!!!!!!

[bassist_25]

Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.

[CMOR]

I've been waiting for this day since they got popular. AMEN!

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

YAY! I FUCKING HATE THIS BAND!

[f.sciarrillo]

I never really listened to them to make a sound opinion.

[lynch1]

same as when Nirvana was done, no great loss.

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

same as when Nirvana was done, no great loss.

This I do NOT agree with but to each their own!

[RobTheDrummer]

Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.

Quote of the year!

[Banned]

Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.

Quote of the year!

Who got the quote of the year last year?

[dbdrummer89]

Maybe Meg got the drumming gig with Dream Theater.

Hey now, she's a great drummer...
...In fact, she's so good that she doesn't even have to keep time like most "mainstream" drummers.

[DirtySanchez]

same as when Nirvana was done, no great loss.

lolwut?

Oh I get it, cuz you're george lynch. I'd be salty too.

[songsmith]

Pretty funny. I never cared for Nirvana either after the first single, but still got a chortle.

[f.sciarrillo]

Hey, don't diss George Lynch! He is an awesome guitar player. *Sticks tongue out*

[songsmith]

I don't think it was a diss. If you were in a hard-rock band (it wasn't called 'hairband' yet) when Nirvana hit, you experienced one of the quickest, most all-encompassing, turn-on-a-dime changes in rock & roll history. You didn't just fade out of style, you had the rug yanked out from under you. We went from larger-than-life cocaine-fueled gigs you could see from space, to heroin-induced shoe-gazing in the three and a half minutes it took to play Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It had to be. You can't really blame Nirvana... blame Poison and Slaughter and Bon Jovi for taking something aggressive and edgy and turning it into something your Mom hummed while doing the dishes. Hard rock had become a cartoon world.
George Lynch, who I think is an innovator and very tasteful, had one major problem: Don Dokken. Lynch wanted to push the envelope. Dokken wanted a Porche.

[songsmith]

OOPS, Rockpage burped, I double-posted, and it won't let me delete. Carry on.

[f.sciarrillo]

I don't think it was a diss. If you were in a hard-rock band (it wasn't called 'hairband' yet) when Nirvana hit, you experienced one of the quickest, most all-encompassing, turn-on-a-dime changes in rock & roll history. You didn't just fade out of style, you had the rug yanked out from under you. We went from larger-than-life cocaine-fueled gigs you could see from space, to heroin-induced shoe-gazing in the three and a half minutes it took to play Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It had to be. You can't really blame Nirvana... blame Poison and Slaughter and Bon Jovi for taking something aggressive and edgy and turning it into something your Mom hummed while doing the dishes. Hard rock had become a cartoon world.
George Lynch, who I think is an innovator and very tasteful, had one major problem: Don Dokken. Lynch wanted to push the envelope. Dokken wanted a Porche.

I know it wasn't a diss, I was trying to be funny

I agree that Don Dokken was holding holding George Lynch back. If you look at some of the guitar players you will see that - Other Example is Andy Timmons. He is an incredible guitar player. You listen to him now and you think there is no way the guy played for Danger Danger.

Once they get out of that bubble and show their real potential, it just blows your mind. Richie Sambora is the same way. I used to hate him, but after listening to him on some shrapnel solo albums he did, I find him to be quite good as well.

[bassist_25]

I don't think it was a diss. If you were in a hard-rock band (it wasn't called 'hairband' yet) when Nirvana hit, you experienced one of the quickest, most all-encompassing, turn-on-a-dime changes in rock & roll history. You didn't just fade out of style, you had the rug yanked out from under you. We went from larger-than-life cocaine-fueled gigs you could see from space, to heroin-induced shoe-gazing in the three and a half minutes it took to play Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It had to be. You can't really blame Nirvana... blame Poison and Slaughter and Bon Jovi for taking something aggressive and edgy and turning it into something your Mom hummed while doing the dishes. Hard rock had become a cartoon world.
George Lynch, who I think is an innovator and very tasteful, had one major problem: Don Dokken. Lynch wanted to push the envelope. Dokken wanted a Porche.

...and I think we need this same musical enema with metalcore now. It was cool and edgy when it first became mainstream, but now that scene has become cookie cutter with 10,000 bands sounding alike. I wonder what the next trend in rock will be.

On topic, for the record, I always thought Jack White had a good ear for a hook. I just couldn't get past the horrible drumming. And it was never an issue of me having a bias for them not having a bass player, because Sleater Kinney rox my sox. Yeah, I spelled "rocks" and "socks" with Xs. Whatcha gonna do about it?

[DirtySanchez]

I liked local H and they had no bassist.

Yeah, SongSmith nailed it.

Paul- I agree with the whole metalcore crap thing too. Listen to Madball Integrity and Hatebreed, fuck the rest. Ok, Killswitch Engage gets a pass too but that's it.

I think the new "Rock" is this wannabe folk stuff they call "Indie" for some weird reason, because it's anything but.