This video has been all the rage with my Facebook friends lately. I must've seen it posted about ten times in the past week.
I get the popularity -- it's funny as shit -- but honestly I think the thing was incorrectly named.
Don't want to sound like a curmudgeon, cuz I truly am not interested in judging it from an aesthetic standpoint. But is this not the natural, logical outcome of a musical culture that overwhelmingly takes its cues from MySpace, American Idol, and Guitar Hero?
If you're in a band that unquestioningly thinks it needs headset mics, matching yellow jackets, and a gigantic American flag as a backdrop, then how could you possibly want any other drummer than this?
Let's not kid ourselves. Everything in this video is exactly as it should be. For better or worse.
Of course, maybe the whole thing is a satire. Sometimes it's hard to tell. I recently saw It Might Get Loud (featuring Jimmy Page, Jack White, and the Edge); this had its own problems with musical bombast (I found myself wondering: don't these guys ever take the masks off?), but there was a nice moment where the Edge, in discussing the over-the-top, self-indulgent nature of the 70s rock he grew up with, referred to the film Spinal Tap, which of course expertly lampoons that same era. His response to the classic mockumentary? "I didn't laugh, I wept. It was so close to the truth."
I wouldn't hold it against you if you had the same reaction to Rick K. and the Allnighters.
3 comments:
It's a show-band. He's a show-drummer. That's the deal, and probably how he got the gig.
I doubt the drummer waited until they were live to pull out all his moves.
Interpretation doesn't matter. That is hilarious.
If Chris Farley was still alive, he would work this into some skit or movie. It's eerie how much this reminds me of the guy that lives in the trailer down by the river or fat man in a little suit.
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