Music and Fandom
Mar. 10th, 2007 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverthorneSo, Bon Jovi is going for a country album that'll be released this year (Along with another rock n roller).
What's funny to me is reading articles and pretty much seeing the 'Oh my god, Bon Jovi can play country music?!' reaction.
And I'm over here going, 'Uh guys? Blaze of Glory ring a bell?' Dead or Alive? How about a lot of the guitar rifts in several other songs that sound very country? (Richie's love for the steel/spanish guitar gets pretty obvious some days *g*). Not to mention they play've played blues, ballads, pop, out and out metal, and even something that sounds like it came straight off the back porch in the Bayou, complete with harmonica (Love for Sale, anyone?).
Listen to them sometime, and I mean the component parts of the instrumentation, not just the usual bouncy stuff that makes you grin if you're a fan or make bad jokes about poofy hair and lavender spandex if you're not. Just about the only thing they aren't up for playing right off the rack is Rap, Thrash, or Punk (Thank god. No offense, guys, but when it stops sounding like music and is either three minutes of repetitious noise, or sounds like the band is gargling cement while still in the mixer, it ceases to be music to me, good lyrics or not).
Anyhow, so yeah, I'm getting a kick out of this. And recommending folks that are inclined that way to give the album a try when it pops its little head out.
I know I will.
Oh yeah. It's supposedly going to be called Lonely Highway, after the song they did for Wild Hogs.
(What, me pimp? Say it ain't so...or maybe it is. *g*)
What's funny to me is reading articles and pretty much seeing the 'Oh my god, Bon Jovi can play country music?!' reaction.
And I'm over here going, 'Uh guys? Blaze of Glory ring a bell?' Dead or Alive? How about a lot of the guitar rifts in several other songs that sound very country? (Richie's love for the steel/spanish guitar gets pretty obvious some days *g*). Not to mention they play've played blues, ballads, pop, out and out metal, and even something that sounds like it came straight off the back porch in the Bayou, complete with harmonica (Love for Sale, anyone?).
Listen to them sometime, and I mean the component parts of the instrumentation, not just the usual bouncy stuff that makes you grin if you're a fan or make bad jokes about poofy hair and lavender spandex if you're not. Just about the only thing they aren't up for playing right off the rack is Rap, Thrash, or Punk (Thank god. No offense, guys, but when it stops sounding like music and is either three minutes of repetitious noise, or sounds like the band is gargling cement while still in the mixer, it ceases to be music to me, good lyrics or not).
Anyhow, so yeah, I'm getting a kick out of this. And recommending folks that are inclined that way to give the album a try when it pops its little head out.
I know I will.
Oh yeah. It's supposedly going to be called Lonely Highway, after the song they did for Wild Hogs.
(What, me pimp? Say it ain't so...or maybe it is. *g*)
