OH, JUST BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS (PART 2)
Thursday, June 25th, 2009 at 1:45pm by Axl RosenbergAudioslave, Velvet Revolver, Army of Anyone, The Panic Channel – these groups all had the wrong idea. Keeping the band relatively intact but hiring a new singer who sounds nothing like your old singer is, from a business perspective, a huge misstep. At least 75% of the above-mentioned bands could go crawling back to their ex when it was time – poor Velvet Revolver didn’t have that luxury.
No no no, much better to hire a new singer who looks and sounds exactly like your old singer, right?
By the way, I can’t believe that this is an official, Yahoo-sanctioned video. It makes that shit I did look like a fucking Kubrick movie.
-AR
So what band is this band, and what band was this band?
Ah. Tags. I see. Awful.
No no no, much better to hire a new singer who looks and sounds exactly like your old singer, right?
Didn’t AC/DC try to do that with Brian Johnson? Too bad Brian can’t write lyrics…
Lol I get it. Also, shouldn’t Amy Lee just end Evanescence? I mean she is the one fucking one left. She threw everyone else out. She could probably make more money by going solo. Because technically besides the first album, Evanescence was Amy Lee’s solo band if such a thing were possible.
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Holy no stage presence, Batman.
Except that 50% of the bands mentioned in the post actually had success with their new singers.
btw, the band in the video is called Thunder Thighs.
Ben Moody looks like he ate Amy Lee.
This Carly chick is the 2010 model. Amy Lee is like the Model T… she looks older than dirt.
Has anyone ever looked at an Evanescence guitar tab before? They make Billie Joe Armstrong look like Jimmy Page
haha yup, thats hilarious. really slowly played drop d power chords baby!
I watched about 7 seconds of both videos. they should have gotten varg.
Varg!….lol that was hilarious
Come On!! Like this is worth giving two shits about?? These guys will do anything to get back in the spotlight….And it worked. Get your fucking act together Metal Sucks!
Hell are you talking about? Audioslave was immensely successful and well received, why would they try to cheaply replace their unique vocalist with some hack imitating him? They went in a melodic direction instead, it’s, fucking get this, called growing musically.
I know, nuts right? Nuts.
I find your inability to comprehend sarcasm disturbing.
Commercially successful or not;
Audioslave is just plain shit. They had 2-3 decent songs out of 3 albums. They made money but lost all cred in doing so.
Cornell was great with Soundgarden, and Rage was great with Zack.
Yes; both of these bands had become stale near the ends of their respected careers, but this combination is like peanut butter and mustard.
at the end of the interview, they actually reveal an interesting marketing strategy: instead of doing albums, they just keep touring forever and release two songs every two months…obviously appealing to internet distribution, and working without label promotion.
anyone think this would work? or do we still need songs organized in albums to really get a grip on them?
Sadly, download-only releases are going to be the future.
There are only a few mass quantity CD manufacturing facilities left, and with the rising costs of paper and plastic making physical examples nearly cost prohibitive, this is the only way the record companies will be able to survive.
I, for one, will really miss being able to fetish the packaging and such while listening to an album. ahhh… the lost beauty of the gatefold vinyl LP is almost gone the way of the Dodo. Soon the CD will be gone too.
Hiring a new singer, whether similar or not to the previous one and carrying on is nothing but a cash-grab.
Sorry; but when this happens, they should change their name and start over. A new singer totally changes how a band sounds; mostly because most people perceive the vocal as the most important factor in a band’s sound (WTF?)