Martyrs

demonrail666 · 06.20.2007, 04:41 PM

Does rock need them? The fans obviously do.

MellySingsDoom · 06.20.2007, 04:47 PM

Black Metal had Euronymous
Classical had Mozart
Jazz had Coltrane, Ayler etc

You may have a point there - an artist dying for their art (usually total nonsense, but it makes a great myth).

Rob Instigator · 06.20.2007, 04:48 PM

dimebag darryl could go suck a nut.

so could Sid.

demonrail666 · 06.20.2007, 04:50 PM

James Blunt, goes for a swim, drowns, washed up as Jeff Buckley.

06.20.2007, 04:51 PM

They're useless. In fact the whole death business is just that: Business.

demonrail666 · 06.20.2007, 04:53 PM

I remember when Kurt offed himself. The next day the Virgin Megastore had a big fuck-off wall filled with cds and merch. People were queueing to load up on copies of Bleach and Nevermind bermuda shorts.

Then they scoured the lyric sheets on the bus home looking for 'clues'.

demonrail666 · 06.20.2007, 04:56 PM

I sort of like the should-be martyrs though: the ones like Keith Richards, Shane MacGowan, the entire LA hair metal scene that's still breathing, Courtney Love. they keep hanging on regardless. I'm sure it's just to frustrate the record industy's desperation to regenerate some interest in their flagging careers once they kick it.

jico. · 06.20.2007, 11:43 PM

the industry needs them.

demonrail666 · 06.20.2007, 11:56 PM

“There's two types of factory [in Manchester]. One makes old corpses. They stumble round like rust dogs. One lives off old dying men. One lives off the back of a dead man. You know which one. You know which Factory I mean.”

- The Fall, C n C

ZEROpumpkins · 06.21.2007, 03:34 AM

Better than cocky assholes.

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MellySingsDoom invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 8,662	Black Metal had Euronymous Classical had Mozart Jazz had Coltrane, Ayler etc You may have a point there - an artist dying for their art (usually total nonsense, but it makes a great myth). __________________ Snow on Easter Sunday - Jesus Christ in reverse.
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	James Blunt, goes for a swim, drowns, washed up as Jeff Buckley.
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06.20.2007, 04:51 PM	#5
sarramkrop Posts: n/a	They're useless. In fact the whole death business is just that: Business.
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06.20.2007, 04:53 PM	#6
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	I remember when Kurt offed himself. The next day the Virgin Megastore had a big fuck-off wall filled with cds and merch. People were queueing to load up on copies of Bleach and Nevermind bermuda shorts. Then they scoured the lyric sheets on the bus home looking for 'clues'.
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06.20.2007, 04:56 PM	#7
demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	I sort of like the should-be martyrs though: the ones like Keith Richards, Shane MacGowan, the entire LA hair metal scene that's still breathing, Courtney Love. they keep hanging on regardless. I'm sure it's just to frustrate the record industy's desperation to regenerate some interest in their flagging careers once they kick it.
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06.20.2007, 11:43 PM	#8
jico. expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1,417	the industry needs them.
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demonrail666 invito al cielo Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 18,509	“There's two types of factory [in Manchester]. One makes old corpses. They stumble round like rust dogs. One lives off old dying men. One lives off the back of a dead man. You know which one. You know which Factory I mean.” - The Fall, C n C
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ZEROpumpkins invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Sydney Posts: 6,157	Better than cocky assholes. __________________
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