Just Want to Play Loud

Posted by Guitar Hero , Aug 01,2001,11:57

Old enough to be your embarrassing dad? Maybe. But lately I've been turning my old amp up louder and louder. Hearing going? Don't think so. There's just nothing like playing a good, hard-driving rock guitar with the volume up. Yeah, yeah, we're all writing sensitive alt.country songs. And maybe it's because Joey Ramone died. Maybe I'm just bored. But I'm thinking that rock is about anger and frustration, and now I'm getting angry and frustrated about missed opportunities in my life. Not hearing anything on the radio that relates to my life. And the loud guitar makes me feel better, just like it did when I was 18. I say it's still viable. I say the dream is still alive.

So what, I'm old. But I'd love to get in a band and play good and loud.

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Re: Just Want to Play Loud -- Guitar Hero

Posted by you neighbor , Aug 01,2001,14:13

MetroBlab

TURN THAT THING DOWN, WILL YOU? WILL YOU JUST TURN THAT DAMN THING DOWN?

(Just kidding, dude. ROCK ON, screw the neighbors. That's why invented ear plugs and moving vans).

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Re: Just Want to Play Loud -- Guitar Hero

Posted by Your God , Aug 01,2001,12:19

MetroBlab

....just one guitar.... one way ticket.... and be a juke box hero...

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Re: Just Want to Play Loud -- Your God

Posted by jessefox , Aug 01,2001,13:38

MetroBlab

Name-dropping Factoid: (boy, I'm full of them today...) -- Lou Gramm of Foreigner is from my hometown (Rochester, N.Y. -- yes, we don't have many celebrities...) and his kids went to the school where my mom teaches. So Lou, who's a very short Italian man, came in for parent conferences a lot and all that. He even did a fund-raising concert for the school. Nice guy. I'm not saying that makes up for "Dirty White Boy" or "I Want to Know What Love Is," but still, it makes me think more fondly of him as I reach to change the station whenever Foreigner comes on.

jfm

p.s. As for the loud guitar guy -- try taking up boogie-woogie piano. It's what my dad did when he couldn't find anyone to play music with anymore. He had fun. Now he's learning accordion, I think...

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Re: Just Want to Play Loud -- jessefox

Posted by MS , Aug 01,2001,15:12

MetroBlab

Hold on there buddy. Foreigner mostly sucked, but "Dirty White Boy" kicked ass. As well as the local wrestler with the same name. Also kicks ass, that is.

both suck

Re: Just Want to Play Loud -- MS

Posted by j. , Aug 03,2001,14:21

MetroBlab

you must seek pro. help for your drug problem it is clouding your mind and imparing your judgement.
j.
to the guitar man :
turn it to eleven baby!

both suck

Re: both suck -- j.

Posted by MS , Aug 03,2001,15:56

MetroBlab

My drug problem is, hopefully, behind me and is a non-issue. And the Dirty White Boy (or Uncle Cletus as he was all-too-briefly known in the WWF) is still one of my favorite pro wrestlers.