Thought Sausage

No video this time, but instead, it's one more piece of bullshit from this "band" Rockstar Supernova. For those of you who don't know (and I truly envy you), Rockstar Supernova (a dumb name for a dumb band) is a "band" (and I use that term interchangeably with product in this case) that was created on a TV show kind of like American Idol. Said band is composed of members of bands that have had success in what most people would say are credible endeavors (Metallica, Motley Crue, Guns N Roses). Tommy Lee, Gilby Clarke and Jason Newsted spent a season on this reality show with the perpetually shirtless Dave Navarro trying to find a singer. Said singers basically sang karaoke to impress the band.

My opinions of the music can best be summed up here. But this quote is what really pisses me off:

"They were both showing something special. At the end of the show, we got to hear them sing on a couple of our tunes. As soon as I heard Lukas ... (I said) 'That's it,' He made us sound like a band. He put the vocals on there, where Dilana sounded like a singer in front of a band. (Rossi) made it come together as a band. He was the right person."

See this is what is wrong with music now. What the fuck makes you think this is a "band" to begin with. I feel sorry for kids now because nobody gets to discover anything anymore. It's shoved down your throat. Bands used to be these sacred things that totally defined you. Everyone had "Their band" (mine was probably Metallica or Zeppelin when I was a kid). Fights broke out over the Metallica vs. Megadeth debate. I remember when I was a kid being obsessed with Metallica, Megadeth, Led Zeppelin and their ilk. I remember wearing Metallica shirts to school like it was a badge of honor. What those guys said in their lyrics was what I was essentially saying too. Nobody had to "vote" for James Hetfield to be the singer because "he made Metallica sound like "a band"" (whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean). He made Metallica sound like Metallica because he was Metallica. And so was Kirk, Cliff, Lars (and Jason). They paid their dues together, they earned the respect of my friends who eventually turned me onto them. They didn't draw legions of fans because that fucktard who conjurs all these reality shows thought "there might be a show here". Can you imagine if it was 1981 and instead of forming Metallica with Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield entered a karaoke reality show with a "band" selecting a singer? Shit, instead of Metallica, we'd have "Groovy Tubes Nova" or some 10 year old cliche name with James Young from Styx, Terry Ollis from Hawkwind and Peter Frampton attempting to sound relevant. Actually, shit, Groovy Tubes Nova is a pretty cool name. You heard it here first folks.

Anyway, these guys get fucktard of the week because they are mocking everything that came before them. The bands that actually mean something don't get started because of some vision of seeking fame. Fame seeks them. Rockstar Supernova isn't a "band" it's a product and in a perfect world, Tommy Lee, Gilby Clarke and Jason Newsted would have to apologize to everybody who doesn't know any better for trying to be taken seriously. Don't get me wrong, I'd rather jam a pencil in my ear than follow American Idol, but at least that show doesn't make any pretenses of being something credible. It knows it's plastic unsubstantiated bullshit, and makes no apologies for it. Jesus, you know a show is pretty fucking lame when it actually makes American Idol look like it has integrity by comparison.