Make that since Diary of a Madman (1981) and I’m with you. The first two solo albums were brilliant, largely due to the songwriting and guitar playing of the late Randy Rhoads. But he’s definitely a burned-out shell now, and a Hillary Clinton donor along with that.

Alex_SF on June 25, 2008 at 11:20 AM

Well, yeah, but again, that goes to the point that basically none of the musical achievements attributed to Ozzy have ever been of his own doing.

True story – I met the Crue in 1987… I was 13 at the time. We went to the concert and then backstage… Tommy Lee was very nice to me

That’s because Tommy was only a couple of years older than you at the time. You guys could’ve traded baseball cards and talked about how would win in a Spiderman vs. Wolverine brawl–of course, most of Tommy’s baseball cards would’ve had cocaine on them.

I bought the new Crue single in Rock Band and like it. As long as I don’t play at Expert level, I’m consistently in the high 90s for Guitar and Bass.

FloatingRock:Yup,I love Judas Priest,Black
Sabbath and the rest that you
mentioned,great stuff!——-:)

In my opinion, [Ozzy] hasn’t recorded any decent music since he was kicked out of Sabbath, and that was, what…thirty years ago?

Make that since Diary of a Madman (1981) and I’m with you. The first two solo albums were brilliant, largely due to the songwriting and guitar playing of the late Randy Rhoads. But he’s definitely a burned-out shell now, and a Hillary Clinton donor along with that.

No offense, but I can’t see what people like in that “new punk”.

Same here. The whole punk-pop / pop-punk thing leaves me cold — it’s just major-chord melodies and over-enunciated adenoidal vocals, with very little in the way of either b*lls or *ss. The power-pop thing goes back to the Beatles and the garage rock of the 60s (Little Steven’s Underground Garage channel on Sirius is actually pretty good for that stuff), but most of it since Cheap Trick hasn’t interested me much.

But then again, I’m mostly a dinosaur-rock type.

My punk tastes are mainly along the lines of this, this, this, or this.

And here’s the Crue at their peak. They rocked for a while, but were dragged down by excess. Tommy’s a notorious sleaze, approaching dirty-old-man-hood these days, and he ain’t ever been the sharpest tack in the drawer.

Maybe Tommy is a liberal and didn’t want to be on Fox.

Didn’t see that one coming.

As to music, I like a little bit of everything. Weezer and Bear McCreary are always in my car/mp3 player. I listen to Devo and Mozart operas on my ‘puter. I can’t explain. : )

I don’t know whose standards are lower – Fox’s (for booking Motley Crue in the first place), or Tommy Lee’s.

Also. Black Sabbath are one of the most brilliant bands of all time, and literally created metal as we know it today. Ozzy, on the other hand, is the pathetic, smoldering shell of a washed-up sellout. While Sabbath may have recorded some of their most groundbreaking albums while Ozzy was in their lineup, that does not automatically put him on the same musical level. In my opinion, he hasn’t recorded any decent music since he was kicked out of Sabbath, and that was, what…thirty years ago? Yeah.

Oh, and Chet Atkins is insane. And I mean that in a good way.

jgapinoy on June 25, 2008 at 1:07 AM

News Boys, Fuse Box, DC Talk (And after the split each of their solo works)

- The Cat

P.S. Kick Start my Heart was the only thing that Crew ever did everything else was poser to the core.

P.P.S. Now off to listen to some romanian industrial of russian techno.

FloatingRock on June 25, 2008 at 1:56 AM

I’ve heard them but didn’t take to them. For Southern Rock, it starts and ends with Duane’s slide guitar. His solo at the end of “Done Somebody Wrong” on Fillmore East is genius. Short and sweet.

Rock on Tommy! \m/