So this week, I decided to change it up a bit. I thought since it's my birthday today, I'm going to do two Flashbacks instead of one. How can you go forward without looking back to where you've been? Same thing with music, my friends.
Quite a few good things came out of 1986 besides yours truly-- a Black Flag live album. Who's Got the 10 1/2 was released in March of that year. The album was recorded at a show in Portland, Oregon.
The band's simple-but-fast music with some deep lyrics made the band what it was. When Henry Rollins joined, he took the band to another level. He took the silly lyrics the band used to write and made them based on emotions and serious topics. Another thing? He did it in a poetic manner. His words were deep and he meant every single syllable.
He and the rest of the band set up the blueprint that many bands follow today. They stayed true to themselves, didn't let anyone affect who they were or what their music meant, and they did it with such passion. There are some bands out there today that follow this manta and you can tell that it's in everything they do both on and off stage. It means a lot when a band can do that without being affected by the environment around them
Here's a video of "Rise Above" from the 80s, accompanied with captions probably made on the hunkin' pieces of plastic camcorders used to be.
Quite a few good things came out of 1986 besides yours truly-- a Black Flag live album. Who's Got the 10 1/2 was released in March of that year. The album was recorded at a show in Portland, Oregon.The band's simple-but-fast music with some deep lyrics made the band what it was. When Henry Rollins joined, he took the band to another level. He took the silly lyrics the band used to write and made them based on emotions and serious topics. Another thing? He did it in a poetic manner. His words were deep and he meant every single syllable.
He and the rest of the band set up the blueprint that many bands follow today. They stayed true to themselves, didn't let anyone affect who they were or what their music meant, and they did it with such passion. There are some bands out there today that follow this manta and you can tell that it's in everything they do both on and off stage. It means a lot when a band can do that without being affected by the environment around them
Here's a video of "Rise Above" from the 80s, accompanied with captions probably made on the hunkin' pieces of plastic camcorders used to be.
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