Guest Snappy Nappy Dugout Report post Posted August 22, 2002 EDIT: And Meg White is ultra-hot. Just saying. YOU DAMN RIGHT SHE'S HOT!!!!!!! Oh, and they are Bother and Sister. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest dilk bathoon Report post Posted August 22, 2002 rolling stone did a story on them, and stated that they we're married at one point, but are seperated now. don't know. hey, did anyone see the vines play on letterman the other night? it kicked fucking ass. they were playing 'get free', and just sorta gave up halfway through and busted their instruments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest I Like WDI Report post Posted August 22, 2002 Oh, and they are Bother (sic) and Sister. They aren't! Their is a assload of evidence in this damn post that they are either married or seperated! Look here if you don't believe me! From Time.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Dmann2000 Report post Posted August 23, 2002 I'm sorry, this is completely off topic, but I have to say this to La Parka es Mi Papi "Stupid American Salt. What Is Your Purpose." That has to be one of the funniest things I have read in months. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest BottleRocket Report post Posted August 25, 2002 A couple of points. 1) John Gillis and Meghan White are not brother and sister. 2) I'm not sure why The Strokes, The White Stripes, The Hives, The Vines, etc., are all being lumped together as a "movement" in 2002. At least the so-called "grunge movement" had a geographic center in Seattle. First off, "Veni Vidi Vicious" by the Hives was released in 2000 and is rooted more in punk than their supposed garage comrades. The band has been around since 1993 and released their debut full-length, "Barely Legal" in 1997. While they might be new to North American audiences, the band is by no means a new act. They have been playing their Stooges-inspired brand of rock for years. Personally, I can see lumping the Hives in with The (International) Noise Conspiracy and The Hellacopters, but not The Strokes or The White Stripes. Secondly, it's hard to label The Vines as part of the "garage" rock trend when they have a very polished debut album that cost lots of money to make and features quite a number of songs that are not very garage sounding at all. Their lead-off single aside, The Vines really aren't the garage rock warriors the media wants them to be. Critics have either lauded them as Radiohead meets Nirvana or slammed them as unfocused and unoriginal. Personally, while I enjoyed parts of "Highly Evolved," I would have to place myself in the latter category. Like The Hives, The White Stripes have been around for years doing the same thing they are doing now. The mix might have been rougher and the songs less focused, but the White Stripes have kept to the same basic formula accross all three of their albums. The band also didn't suddenly emerge from Detriot with a bang once "White Blood Cells" was released, they toured with Pavement and Sleater-Kinney prior to that release and gained a reputation for their outstanding live shows. Furthermore, the Stripes are much more grounded in blues than the any of the other bands that are filed under the retro garage umbrella. If it weren't for "Fell In Love With A Girl," we wouldn't be having a discussion about whether they should be grouped in with The Hives and The Vines. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club was once lumped into the garage catagory while "Whatever Happened To My Rock 'N' Roll (Punk Song)" was in heavy rotation on MTV2, but it seems that most people have since figured out that they are much more rooted in The Jesus & Mary Chain than MC5 or the Stooges. Finally, The Strokes. Yes, they are overhyped. Yes, they come from wealthy backgrounds. Yes, their sound is based in the NYC hipster Velvet Undergound/Television tradition. But they do have a knack for melody and have managed to sell over 700,000 copies of their debut at a time when few rock acts without metal or hip-hop influences are able to do so. Personally, I think it would be easier to lump The Strokes in with the other New York scenester acts like The Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radio 4, etc., if you wanted to create a "movement" attachment for the band. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest hardyz1 Report post Posted August 26, 2002 Scott Keith hates them, so they must be pretty good. Am I right or am I right? Eh? Eh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest saturnmark4life Report post Posted August 27, 2002 heh, well they are pretty good but having seen them live over the weekend i can say they bored the living shit out of me by the end of the set. Meg White I'm finding increasingly attractive but she is THE WORST DRUMMER OF ALL TIME EVER. The hives however, completely stole the festival. Honestly. I like em anyways, but they don't come across great when live on tv. You have to be there. and of course i finally saw AWK~! and NOFX~! who got me further towards completing my life. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Kotzenjunge Report post Posted August 27, 2002 I've been downloading all I can by them and I can't get enough. Same with all of these kinds of bands. Oh, and as I said before, if they(or Eminem) don't get Best Video, I'm going to be quite irked. If only the video for "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground" had come out sooner, it'd be a lock for Best Video. Fo sheez, Kotzenjunge Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
