simpson and prior..... everyone else is doing their best scott imitation...and that keenen duffty kid sucks balls

axl rose is troy duffy

with Cb.. they had a couple of different reasons that lots of people were into it:
1. Guns N' Roses....
2. Stone Temple Pilots

it was the perfect combo of two of the most popular and better selling artists from the 90's.... and they wrote good songs.. or at least songs that hearkened back to the heyday of both bands... slither is clearly an STP song with slash... and fall to pieces sounds like vintage GNR with the stp singer wailing over it....
... after that... crap. they tried to have their "own distinct sound".... and i wouldn't call it an artistic failure..  but definitely a commercial one.... it wasn't enough "GNR", first off... and it came off sounding like later period, wanna be 70's.. watered down, sexed up STP... think "shangri la dee da" and the weaker songs on "Vol. 4"... before the vasectomy...
that shit don't cut it in the mainstream when you're those guys ages...after you cease to be the "in" thing... the general public.. or the "casual fan" doesn't wanna hear you "experiment" or "grow" anymore... they want to hear the same song over and over... the "vintage" "classic" shit....same shit happened with audioslave.. fuck.. they even had the same above mentioned "formula"... one part soundgarden.. one part rage.. both great bands from the 90's....
and when they tried to grow... it was all over.
that's how it goes, kids.... we seem to forget the other "supergroups" from the past.... the only truly successful mother fuckers were the ones that sounded like their previous bands.... i blame the dumbing down of society... everyone wants to hear the same shit.. all the time.
as special as a band like VR or audioslave might be to us.... as relavent as we like to think they are... it just ain't true... to the general public.. they're geezers... just like "the firm" was to me as an up and comer...
"ok.. i get it.. guy from zeppelin.. blah blah blah.. wait.. they don't sound like zeppelin?.... well then fuck that!"....20 years from now nickelback and the singer from kings of leon are gonna do a fucking record... and some 25-35 year old kids are gonna be creaming their jeans..... "hey.. it sounds like nickelback....they were AWESOME when i was a kid...lol"
..and i'm gonna tell em that they need to put on an alice in chains record so they can figure out where they stole their sound from.. and the kid's gonna look at me with the tilted head... "doggy heard a strange sound" look in his eyes, and.. ask me (with a straight face).."who the fuck is alice in chains, old man?"....
then i'm gonna turn my wheelchair around... go home.. and fucking hang myself

holy shit.. i blacked out.. what happened?
i remember typing  Stone Tem... and then i .. don't rememer.. anything....

micheal jackson.... off the wall