Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Attack Attack! Easily one of the worst bands ever

These guys are just embarrassing to the art of music. Let's see if they've got the checklist complete: Obnoxious metal-esque guitar riffs? Check. Double bass-blasts? Check. SCREAMMMMINGGGG!!!!!???Check. The cherry on top...AUTO TUNING!? Double Check. But oh, they invented Crab-Core! Watch the video, and you'll see them posing like crabs with their guitars with the obnoxious head-banging.


What's almost worse is that they're on the Warped Tour. A tour I once held as a sacred music festival. A time in the summer when I was a younger lad enjoying bands like Alkaline Trio, The Bouncing Souls, Less Than Jake, NOFX, The Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Bad Religion, Unwritten Law, Assorted Jellybeans, Mad Caddies, Frenzal Rhomb, Lagwagon, No Use For A name..etc etc the list keeps going. I've got fond memories of this tour. Unfortunately over the last few years, it's gone down hill. Kevin L, the founder of Warped Tour signs on whomever is hot and popular. And apparently these sand-crabs are big and popular. I have high hopes that one day, their necks snap in a middle of a break-down and their heads roll into the crowds, thus ending Crab-Core.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Police on bicycles? REALLY?

A week ago I was drumming in our screened-in porch (since our basement was recently sealed and worked on) and after about 25 minutes, I saw the two police officers driving up my driveway...ON BIKES! They said "can we talk to you at your door?" Turns out a neighbor perhaps a few blocks or a street down called the police complaining about "loud drumming". Really? I understand that it's extra loud in the porch because of our glass walls, but seriously it was 11 in the morning. As much as I'd love to play in my basement we're still spraying the walls for mold and eventually will be painting a mural in oue of the corners. I guess I don't get why I should have to stop drumming on my only free time because some cranky neighbor couldn't handle 25 minutes of music...Even the police didn't think it was a big deal.