Well I didn't see this coming.
J is my usual go-to man for general naysaying and negativity and he's been predictably pissed off with anything AIC related post Layne Staley's death.
So all this has surprised me greatly:
J: I'm...also really liking the new aic album, just a bit bummed it's a farce, but still a cool album. what a turnaround :)
M: should write a post on it* :p
J: Dear jerry, i love your new album because it sounds like layne never died, but i'm not happy on it being used under the AIC name. Love J :)
Who'd have thought it? I know he's still being pissy about things, but for J to admit he actually likes the album (for him to have even bothered listening to it in the first place) is, I believe, a step forward for tolerance and understanding in metal.
So okay, that's a slight overstatement, but I hope you can see what I'm getting at. A lot of metal fans, myself included, will blather on about one band's crimes against music...without actually giving them much of a chance. That's pretty retarded of us and we could be missing out on wicked sick stuff.
HOWEVER - it's fun to be gratuitously rude about things I have no idea about, so I might just continue to do that anyway. But now I can do that with a hint of irony. Which makes it okay. Or not. Whatever.
*I've been nagging J to do a full post of his own since I started this.
I think Jerry Cantrell did alot of soul searching for 14 years before he decided to bring AIC back. Most bands bring somebody new in with in a couple of years of a loss. AC/DC is a great example of that.
ReplyDeleteI think Jerry put this together to see if it would even be accepted much less liked and for the most part he succeeded. It helps that the album is pretty good.