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  1. Posted

    Oh I know her name. I just don't really care about her that much lol.

     

    I only know about her because of guitar hero, because you could unlock actual rock stars, and the amount of times I ended up having to play Paramore, and she comes bounding out and me thinking "Fuck sake, again?!"

     

    Do you know who I wanted to unlock?!

     

    guitar_hero_world_tour_-_zakk_wylde.jpg

     

    Zakk fucking Wylde!

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    Not sure if this counts as a band per say but I can do a mean Fred Schneider impression so B-52s call me.

     

    Other than that the only instrument I can play in the trumpet so I guess Mighty Mighty Bosstones or Real Big Fish.

     

    Looks like we've got an HDTGM band in the making

     

    Cam Bert on the Trumpet

    Smigg on the Bass (and possible vocals)

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    Okay, back to my copious amounts of notes that I have here.

     

    I noticed the overusage of the "Metal Horns", actual metal guys don't use them that much. If anything, doing it as much as the people in this movie did just makes you look like a poseur. However, that's just tangential to the thing I wanted to talk about, who actually invented the metal horns? There are two men staking their claim.

     

    The first being the late, great Ronnie James Dio of Dio, Black Sabbath, Rainbow and Elf (not the movie) fame. His version of the introduction of the metal horns comes from his Italian heritage, he was always see his grandmother giving the "Devil Horns", which from my rudimentary understanding of Italian culture, is something you do to ward off bad people, Dio thought that looked cool, "metal", so would do it on stage.

     

    The other is Kiss bassist, and notorious huckster, Gene Simmons, who claims to have invented it entirely by accident, after a show he was waving to the audience, but he was still holding his pick with his middle two fingers, and noticed people in the audience were doing it back to him, and said that it looks like a demon. He also tried to trademark the gesture, in a move similar to Paris Hilton's claiming "That's hot" as her's.

     

    However, James Hetfield of Metallica may have debunked both of those claims, and joked that it was none other than Spiderman who started it.

     

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    This picture does lead me to an important thing to say. If you insist on doing the metal horns, KEEP YOUR FUCKING THUMB IN! Thumb in, that's the metal horns, thumb out, that's the sign language for "I love you", if you're telling someone you love them in sign language, then keep that thumb out, and tell people you love them because that's a beautiful thing, however, you want to show the world you're metal, thumbs in.

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    Okay, a little more from my notes, in the tribute band's rehearsal room, they have a sign that reads "Rock & Roll Ain't Blood Pollution!"

     

    What kind of sense does that make?! They've taken an AC/DC song title, "Rock & Roll Ain't Noise Pollution", slapped the tribute band's name "Blood Pollution" (which is also the name of a Steel Dragon song). The problem is, it just makes it sound like a bad review. "Rock & Roll is a lot of things, but Rock & Roll Ain't Blood Pollution".

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    I don’t think I have anything to add to this discussion. The movie was more “dumb and boring” than “crazy and insane.” However, I thought I’d throw this question out to the forum.

     

    What band do you feel the most confident that you could to replace a member?

     

    For me, maybe, They Might Be Giants, Weezer, or Barenaked Ladies.

     

    I was an adequate bass player in my day, playing thrash and some Death Metal, playing with my fingers, not a pick. So, any band with a shitty bass player.

     

    I'm an okay singer, but I doubt I could replace anybody with my voice.

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    I just really hated this movie. It should have ended with Chris finding out Emily found not-Starbucks-Starbucks happiness in Seattle with Rob.

     

    What was Rob doing in Seatlle? The guy's from Pittsburgh, and he just happens to bump into his friend from home?

     

    Maybe he always had a thing for Emily, and he found out that she was moving to Seattle so he said "Hey, I gotta go to Seattle... I got a... thing... what? Emily? I don't know an Emily... Oh, the chick who managed us? No I didn't know she was opening a coffee place there... how did I know she was opening a coffee place? Well, who doesn't drink coffee?!... I'm not being weird... YOU'RE THE STALKER!!" and just runs off.

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    It's weird, the only real "good guy" in the movie is Timothy Olyphant's character "Rob".

     

    When Chris is in the tribute band, he's a dick to everybody else. Even chastising Rob because his pinch harmonic wasn't good enough, despite it sounding the same as it was on the tape. Then when they have their concert, it's Chris who spoils everything because Rob isn't playing the song EXACTLY as it was originally recorded, going as far as to break Rob's Marshall stack, those things aren't cheap. Even when he's kicking him out of the band, Rob is saying "I love you, but you're going mental with this"

     

    Then, when Chris joins Steel Dragon, Rob seems genuinely happy for him, not many people would be so charitable in that situation, considering they had a falling out the last time they saw each other.

     

    Then, after everything is said and done, Rob's still willing to start another band with Chris.

     

    Every other major character in the film isn't a good person.

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    Yeah I was surprised by the number of actual 80s-90s rockers in this film, and I have to assume some of the extravagance/debauchery was based on their lives. Since this film is based somewhat on the story of "Ripper" Owens in that it's about a guy who was in a cover band and ends up playing in the band he idolized, but everything else is basically every "Behind the Music" episode ever, it's amazing that none of the musicians stopped and said 'hey, not even Motley Crue went through this much shit.'

     

    Also in a Mandela Effect moment for me, I could have sworn it was Paul Bettany in the role of Beers, not Jason Flemyng.

     

    Jason Flemyng's performace in the movie was really good. His delivery of "Kim's a guy?!" when he was mocking Mark Wahlberg was absolutely perfect, I don't know why I found it funny, just hit the right note with me.

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    But does the movie try to suggest she's got a penis because she pees standing up? I was so confused by that

     

    Yes, I think so.

     

    It was kind of foreshadowed earlier in the film where Tim Spall, when asked by Mark Wahlberg for a backstage pass "Not without a blowjob and a sex change", and then talking about how she dated Bobby Beers, which I think was a clumsy way of saying that he dated Tanya, because he couldn't be seen as gay publicly. That's what I'm extrapolating from it anyways.

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    Here's one thing I picked up on as well.

     

    When Mark Wahlberg is kicked out of the tribute band, and when Jennifer Aniston is told "You can still manage us if you want to", she tells them "I'm a businesswoman, and you follow the talent, and all the fucking talent just walked out the room!" How can she say that? The tribute band are incredibly talented, especially the two guitarists, because they're keeping up with Zakk Wylde's guitar playing, Zakk Wylde is one of the best guitar players in the world, so to say "All the talent just walked out the room!" is just blatently false.

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    Oddly enough, this episode just posted after Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux have called it quits!

     

    She probably heard that they're doing this episode, she sat Justin down and said "Jason Mantzoukas acknowledged my existence, and I think I might have a shot with him, so... we can still be friends."

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