We’ve got a band made up of bona-fide guitar genius Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, a rhythm section cribbed from Jane’s Addiction and Porno For Pyros and Alice In Chains’ late, great Layne Staley up front.
Then, something happened as time went on. Something that happens not just in the world of rock ‘n’ roll, but life in general. With age, Pearl Jam stopped taking themselves so seriously.
We might think of the teenage pop star as a modern phenomenon. At least when it comes to real pop musicians that aren’t novelty acts, writing their own songs and being taken seriously as artists. The truth is that the vast majority of the great leaps forward that came from the 1960s were being created by folks in their late teens and early twenties.
A maestro or a taskmaster?
A classic Kiss tune.
Let’s be real here, the ‘In The Air Tonight’ megastar and erstwhile Genesis drummer has all the natural charm of a Madame Tussauds wax model and the authenticity to match.
A desperately painful time for Pink Floyd.
As a kid, Frank Zappa used to play with mercury. You really can’t make it up, can you?
Thus began a string of albums explicitly informed by her work with the civil rights movement.
