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A friend of mine left his compilation CD at my house and I used it to demonstrate how hard difficult it is to tell one rock band apart from the other. Back in the late 60s, 70s, you could EASILY tell right away (at least most musically inclined people or musicians could) who was who. Put on Lynyrd Skynyrd, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, The Doobie Brothers, Santana, Jimi Hendrix, CSN&Y, Cream, etc. on a tape compilation and you had eight or more completely distinct and original sounding groups with their own individual message. My friends' CD had Stain'd, Linkin Park, Green Day, POD, Nickleback (one band I - oh man, I do not like) and a few others I can't recall c'os I hear the cool intros then the typical soul-searching woe-is-me lyrics and the predictable melodies riding over the top come in and its "NEXT!". If I was an A&R Record Label Scout going on line sifting through the millions of mp3 listings for new talent (Acid PLanet being one example) if I was not drawn in like a moth to a bright light by at least the chorus, that would be me. 'NEXT!". Now, my band, Detox Dean has a two-song sampler for anyone to listen to on the Bandmix site, and to some we may suck as well. One thing I don't believe we do is sound like everyone else. My favorite band, Alice In Chains, to this day, still sound great. Jerry Cantrell doesn't have the range and tortured heroin scream that Layne Stayley was gifted with, but he uses what he has to great effect. As for the rest, only Ozzy Osborne's latest release "Scream" stands out amongst all the other razorblade gargle seven string doom and gloom stuff on my Cox music metal channel. Ozzy rocks, rules, and is from Birmingham, England, one wretched idustrial hell hole of a city (not so much today) but to be born there and to have survived all he has and live to tell................it a rock n' roll rebel badge of honor. And they seem to be a dying breed.

Nickleback was always substandard.

Yes, they made it but because they did a tune for Spiderman and that's about the only reason.

(sorrynicklebagfansbut)

Pop music of all genre' has always followed a mold set by someone successful ahead of them.

Same reason we have so many lame assed "investigation" or " reality sluts " TV series today.

I begin to believe the men with the money to produce such have little imagination. And no balls for taking any risk.

Hey
Did anybody listen to this band songs!?
I think that they are very original and full of energy!!!
Go Detoooooxxx

Yep.

Well as always the feedback from ya'll forum'ers is very much appreciated. I predict a return to the kind of metal most of us grew up listening too, tortured our parents with, and never lost the passion to keep playing. Detox Dean should be out there in the clubs around Phoenix before the New Year and will have plenty of demos in hand to go 'round as promo you can never stop as long as you want to be ahead of the game. Won't take much to convince a few funky friends of mine to take over this business part of what makes rock roll...............got a few tricks I learned paying my dues in the 90s thank you!