I write long e-mails all day long youd think incould get grammar right. It like i have a barrier that drops when i use my phone. I also double check e-mails doe.
Linkin Park were never innovative or massively influential. They were Limp Bizkit without balls. If anything, they were the moment when rap rock stopped moving forward; the point when the wave had crashed into the beach and started receding. They weren't even alone. They just had more big money label push. Ugh. Articles like this make life unbearable when lame celebs die.
“I think that’s funny—just those words ‘the integrity of metal.’ In my opinion, we actually kept metal alive,” he told Metal Hammer.
"Thomson may look and talk 100 percent metal, but a peek into his CD case says otherwise: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, a Mozart concerto, Gorefest, lots of Hendrix, Stones and Beatles, Morbid Angel, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, the Misfits. "I have to have my Beatles and Stones," he says. "That's the only way you can stay on tour when you're playing with Linkin Park. Please print that. If they want to fight, my bus is the white one with the stupid gay stuff on the side of it."
Even amongst pop metal bands, they were reviled. I guess by inspiring contempt for their music was how he kept metal alive lol
We'll know the influence nu metal had. The scene was damn near dead. Everybody was bumping gangster rap at the time. You didn't even have to own The Chronic 2001 to listen it front to back. It was just playing everywhere. Metal was barely a blip on the radar at the time.
Nu Metal breathed life into a dying market. Hybrid Theory was a monster album that reached an entire generation of young people. People that weren't into metal began to dig a little deeper. Brought money and attention back to the live tours. Nu Metal blew up Ozzfest. Half this board or more cut their teeth on Slipknot, Disturbed, Linkin Park and the like even if they don't want to admit it anymore. Fuck, this board is a spin-off of a music forum that was founded by having Slipknot play )
I really enjoyed the first two albums when I was a kid. Is it wrong to say the way they influenced people is all the kids that used them as a bridge into heavier music?
I didn't grow up with parents that enjoyed metal or anything nobody showed me what was good metal or rock. I only had what I heard flipping through tv or radio stations. Korn and linkin park were two that definitely opened my eyes to there being something different from country, rap, or pop.
You tryin to be a hero fool? You wanna see badass mother fucker?! I'll show ya a badass!!!
See i had someone to show me and my brothers metal as kids. Sabbath, Maiden, Metallica, Priest, Megadeth, etc.
But i still jammed all the bands like LP, Disturbed, Korn, Slipknot at age 10. They were the first rock and "metal" bands that i discovered on my own and didnt just like because my uncle or dad liked them. I stopped listening to all of those bands in high school but i'm not gonna act too cool for school or like i'm above it. They were all gateway bands
My old man and a couple uncle's were into classic rock so I grew up with AC/DC, Pink Floyd, and Zeppelin. LP was definitely the first band I discovered in my own and they're what led me to stuff like System Of A Down and Korn which opened the gateway to The Big 4, Pantera and all that good stuff. So I can definitely credit them for that.
My dad got me into a lot of Woodstock type music. Hendrix, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, etc. Also remember him having me listen to Chuck Berry records and what not, so i was definitely into rock music thanks to him. Still can't deny the influence bands like Disturbed and Limp Bizkit (and embarrassing as it is, W.A.S.P.) had on me getting into heavier stuff so I can definitely understand and agree the influence LP had on my generation.
That being said, I also understand Satan's disdain for them cause they're not exactly writing quality stuff, but still.
Also I got this buddy of mine with the letters "LP" tattooed on his bicep like the douchy pos that he is. Can't stop laughing about how he's scarred for life with that stupid ass thing.
I started by listening to the rock stations with my dad and thought it was too easy, boring, or slow besides like Metallica and the random slip knot song. I wanted something faster I felt an drew atrted there. Now I'm like the opposite )
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Linkin Park were never innovative or massively influential. They were Limp Bizkit without balls. If anything, they were the moment when rap rock stopped moving forward; the point when the wave had crashed into the beach and started receding. They weren't even alone. They just had more big money label push. Ugh. Articles like this make life unbearable when lame celebs die.
“I think that’s funny—just those words ‘the integrity of metal.’ In my opinion, we actually kept metal alive,” he told Metal Hammer.
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This is an actual quote from the article. Jesus christ.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/highway-to-hell-20011011
"Thomson may look and talk 100 percent metal, but a peek into his CD case says otherwise: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, a Mozart concerto, Gorefest, lots of Hendrix, Stones and Beatles, Morbid Angel, Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, the Misfits. "I have to have my Beatles and Stones," he says. "That's the only way you can stay on tour when you're playing with Linkin Park. Please print that. If they want to fight, my bus is the white one with the stupid gay stuff on the side of it."
Even amongst pop metal bands, they were reviled. I guess by inspiring contempt for their music was how he kept metal alive lol
Nu Metal breathed life into a dying market. Hybrid Theory was a monster album that reached an entire generation of young people. People that weren't into metal began to dig a little deeper. Brought money and attention back to the live tours. Nu Metal blew up Ozzfest. Half this board or more cut their teeth on Slipknot, Disturbed, Linkin Park and the like even if they don't want to admit it anymore. Fuck, this board is a spin-off of a music forum that was founded by having Slipknot play
I didn't grow up with parents that enjoyed metal or anything nobody showed me what was good metal or rock. I only had what I heard flipping through tv or radio stations. Korn and linkin park were two that definitely opened my eyes to there being something different from country, rap, or pop.
i remember when nookie was retired on MTv
But i still jammed all the bands like LP, Disturbed, Korn, Slipknot at age 10. They were the first rock and "metal" bands that i discovered on my own and didnt just like because my uncle or dad liked them. I stopped listening to all of those bands in high school but i'm not gonna act too cool for school or like i'm above it. They were all gateway bands
That being said, I also understand Satan's disdain for them cause they're not exactly writing quality stuff, but still.
Also I got this buddy of mine with the letters "LP" tattooed on his bicep like the douchy pos that he is. Can't stop laughing about how he's scarred for life with that stupid ass thing.