WHY YOU SHOULD SEE GAVIN ROSSDALE ON TOUR
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 at 2:00pm by Gary Suarez
Tonight, Gavin Rossdale will be playing New York’s Gramercy Theatre as part of a May/June U.S. tour supporting his 2008 solo effort Wanderlust. Those of you familiar with this record or its corresponding singles know that the former Bush frontman has departed significantly from the raucous yet melodic post-grunge of his old band, opting for a softer, essentially adult contemporary sound not entirely dissimilar to Chris Cornell’s post-Audioslave offering Carry On. While this description likely wont appeal to you metal maniacs (I sure as hell didn’t buy it), here are a few reasons why you should load up on alcohol and catch one of the upcoming dates.
1) He’s gonna play Bush songs. A recent playlist shows roughly a third of the set comes from that back catalog. Oh, don’t even pretend that you didn’t like “Machinehead” or “Everything Zen.” You fucking loved them. Stop fronting.
2) You missed out on Institute. What’s Institute, you ask? Well, it was Rossdale’s first post-Bush band to release an album. What did it sound like? LIKE GAVIN ROSSDALE FRONTING HELMET! Page Hamilton produced the fucking thing, and two dudes from a later incarnation of Helmet played in the band (along with Cache Tolman of Rival Schools and Josh Freese). Sadly, Distort Yourself was the group’s only full-length. Rossdale laments that he didn’t just call it a solo album, because it would’ve gotten a hell of a lot more attention.
3) Chris Traynor is on guitar. Quick bio: co-founded Orange 9mm, did a stint as Helmet’s live guitarist on the Aftertaste tour, later went on to join Institute and an iteration of Hamilton’s retooled Helmet. Chris Traynor is a hardcore noise rock veteran, and if anyone can make Rossdale’s pop songs more aggressive onstage, he can.
-GS
[Gary Suarez is going to fly to Los Angeles and find his asshole brother. He also writes for Brainwashed and usually manages the consistently off-topic No Yoko No. Say, why don't you follow him on Twitter?]
FUCK GAVIN ROSSDALE WHAT A FUCKING SILLY WANKER.
BUSH WAS A TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE BAND OF RICH ENGLISH KIDS TRYING TO BE NIRVANA.
WHY THEY WEREN’T LAUGHED OUT OF AMERICA I WILL NEVER KNOW, YOU AMERICANS DON’T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO SEE HOW HE IS A WANKER OF THE HIGHEST ORDER BUT IF YOU WERE BRITISH I’M SURE YOU’D UNDERSTAND.
ONLY LITTLE GIRLS WERE INTO THIS BAND IN ENGLAND. MAKES SENSE THAT HE’S MAKING EVEN MORE PUSSIFIED MUSIC NOW IN HIS LATER YEARS.
I loved you in “Mr. Destiny.”
Kind of like The Clash were rich English kids trying to be The Sex Pistols?
I hope that Clash comment was a joke. The Clash were homeless squatters, by no means “rich”.
Awesome article!
New Slough Feg album? Zero posts.
New Church of Misery album? Zero posts.
Gaving fucking Rossdale? Recommended!
For fuck’s sake…
Gavin is the MAN! He actually agreed to be in my last music video to sing a little piece of “Glycerine.”
Warning: not for the faint of fart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws7cYdif_kc
-=Wicked C.
Couldn’t agree more with the above post. Shit sucks get the fuck out of here with this eurotrash
and by above post I was referring to iolanach’s post not Wicked Celtics
“Gary Suarez is going to fly to Los Angeles and find his asshole brother. ”
Well done, Metalsucks, well done.
well said, my friend.
Ill be the first to admit I have all of the Bush albums( granted you would never hear one coming from my apartment EVER again but) and I used to listen to them on repeat. I was also 12 years old and did not know any better. Though I would not be caught dead at a show or admitting to liking Gavin Rossdale
A. he is talented B. He is married to Gwen Stefani
Green to red, machinehead!
this thread just got intense! ha. Nice one.
If you can’t rock out to Bush, who can you rock out to??
Silence. I could rock out to silence better than Bush.
Bitches. Bitches love Bush. Bitches love Gavin Rossdale. Conduit loves bitches.
Wow..not interested in Gavin Rossdale, but big points for referencing ORANGE 9MM!!! “Driver Not Included” kicked serious ass…
I second that. Orange 9mm was an absolutely brilliant band and I still listen to them constantly to this day. I actually tried to get into Institute just because of Chris Traynor when that disc came out, but I couldn’t do it. It just didn’t do it for me…
I agree, Gavin is a fantastic performer, never seems bored and shithouse with what he does. He loves getting his audience riled up and is, believe it or not, a great guy to meet, you can really talk with him about anything.
who cares.
You put the Sucks In Metal sucks! Mancrusch faggot…peace Raul
Bush was a joke back when they first reared their fake grunge heads, and they still are a joke. Gavin only got his songs played because Bush was the N’Sync of grunge (signed for his looks and to make money off the genius of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden). The record companies were looking for a teen idol for all the girls who couldn’t latch onto Kurt Cobain or Layne Staley. Bush, and Gavin Rossdale in particular, wasn’t offensive, controversial or progressive enough to worry parents. They were generic and stale from their very first song. They were a copycat band, nothing more.
Let’s take a look at some Machinehead lyrics: got a machinehead/ it’s better than the rest/ green to red machinehead/ got a machinehead/ it’s better than the rest/ green to red/ and I walk from my machine/I walk from my machine
breathe in breathe out/ breathe in breathe out/ breathe in breathe in breathe in/ got a machinehead/ it’s better than the rest/ green to red machinehead/ got a machinehead it’s better than the rest/ green to red yeah yeah yeah/ better than the rest/ better than the rest/ machine head
Genius or just stupid? That’s a pretty fine line. No, wait. It isn’t a fine line. They suck.
whether you like it or not, you just became my best friend. That was an FN classic comment. Kudos, kudos. Thank you for the truth you bring to the game.
Thank you for saying it better than I could. Bush was always awful.
I listened to all of Sixteen Stone last night and the lyrics are absolutely hysterical, like it could be a comedy record, a parody of itself. BUT…those melodies and the recording is really very good. They did that part right. Just sayin. The lyrics will go down as some of the worst in rock history.
So what you guys are saying is you want me to write MORE about Gavin Rossdale? Sure thing!
exactly.
Daily updates would be nice. When you’re done with that, please relate to us all about how Jani Lane was the most influential singer/songwriter of the 80’s. I can’t wait.
Can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I’d go see him just for Traynor and Mike Pedicone (used to drum for The Bled and is way too creative for this.)