Back to Basics
As I slowly transition further and further away from blogging, my posts have changed in there basic outline quite a bit. I used to write reviews for movies, books, games, etc. but now I only bitch about life or self reflect. This post, however, will not be about my love life, Cody’s love life, or any other facet of my life. This go around I will blog about more informational and probably entertaining topics.
First off, a book review. I have recently began reading more non-fiction but only biographies about rock stars. I’m trying to keep my non-fiction simple. Anyway, I just finished Slash and it was very entertaining. I don’t feel that I need to explain who it is about since the title is self-explainitory. Although, I have never been a big Guns N’ Roses fan I still found Slash to be an interesting character. How could I not? He is easily one of the coolest looking dudes ever. His life was fairly cliche as far as rock stars go. Although, his parents and their friends were not cliche at all. Nonetheless, it was interesting to read about how dysfunctional the band was, especially Axl. The only dissapointment that came out of the book was that I thought it was written more recently. I am a big Velvet Revolver fan so I was anticipating reading about that. When Vevet Revolver didn’t show up until the last thirty pages or so I was pretty disspointed. He barely scratched the surface on the band because they had just finished the second album when he wrote the book. I thought I would be able to read more about Weiland being a trainwreck. Since the band was still together when the book was publish, there was few words written about Weiland and all were nice. All in all, the book was really entertaining but would have been even more so if I was a bigger fan of GNR instead of Velvet Revolver.
Speaking of Scott Weiland, I bought the new Stone Temple Pilots album about three or four weeks ago. I was hooked from the get go. They have a slightly different sound but not enough for it to not be unrecognizable. The main single on the album is “Between the Lines” which seems to be about Weiland loving his wife more than he ever did the drugs. That is a pretty safe assumption since the chorus reads, “You always were my favorite drug. / Even when we used to take drugs.” Yes, those lyrics do sound a little stupid but the rest of them are much better, I assure you. Plus, the music does a good job distracting you from that part of the chorus. The other single is “Take A Load Off” and it is just a very good rock song. No complaints on that one. My favorite song is “Hickory Dichotomy” which is defiantly a slightly different style from the old STP, but I think it sounds super cool and the lyrics are interesting. Although, I haven’t a fucking clue what the lyrics mean. Backtracking to Slash for a second, in the book he states that Weiland has a voice similar to three artists: John Lennon, Jim Morrison, and David Bowie. Lennon and the Bowie come out bright and clear on the new tracks, especially Lennon. Scott sounds almost exactly like Lennon on the song “Dare if You Dare”. In conclusion, every single song is enjoyable. In fact, there was only one on the whole album that I thought was just meh. Obviously, this is all my opinion and unless you know me then you have no reason to accept my thoughts as a legitimate review. That is fine if you don’t but you should at least give it a chance if you like alternative hard rock.
There we are, a post that has nothing to do with the drama of my life. That was a nice breath of fresh air. Maybe I will blog more often if I start staggering the reviews in with all the drama. Once again, I have no idea when I will be back. I am still in shock that I blogged twice in the same week.
