Dave Mustaine on FEMA Camps and Coffins, page 2

Originally posted by Asktheanimals
reply to post by ProtoplasmicTraveler

Megadeth, smegadeth? Have you ever read Mustaines lyrics? Go check
out peace sells, who"s buying? No other metal band at that time was
doing anyting political - it was all about fantasypooh knights riding, blades swinging I am the hero crap. It was punk and hardcore bands that were filling the political void, not metal. Megadeth is still real and excellent musicians to boot even though I'll admit I never cared much for Mustaine's vocal style which reminded me too much of Iron maiden.

The world for all practical purposes politically, musically and economically died along about the time of John Bonham and Led Zeppelin. That was a band!

It's just an endless progression of regressive and reused styles and methods that lacks anything fresh or innovative or particuarly truly powerful from a political standpoint.

There was a time that a word from John Lennon or Paul McCartney could have literally sent hordes of hundreds of thousands of counter revolutionary youth on a rampage through the halls of power.

The Government truly feared artists like the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors and the Who, Crosby Stills Nash and Young and the Grateful Dead and a few others because they really did have the power to speak to and for and command a massive political movement that was really occuring at that point in time.

No artist today has that effect on the masses and there is no such sizable or mobile political movement abroad in the land today as the Hippy movement.

In the end, it's not really about what you know, it's how you use it, to what effect, when, where and how.

There was a time before the rock industry became some commercialized and mainstream the government had legitimate reason to fear it and some artists especially, and the Powers that Be had a legitimate reason to subvert and control it and long ago since have.

It's more now about frightening people into a resistence is futile concept of self defeating anger and fear and unrealistic hope than a mass collective gathering of like minded souls like occured at Woodstock and other festivals and political events in the late sixties and early seventies.

Nothing personal against megadeath but as far as your annology to Iron Maiden, I think they sang it best by singing, 'Run for the Hills, Run for your lives'!

Good chatting with you as always friend.