Floydian18: I think mattalac agrees with you. Steppenwolf was the real thing, GD just a bunch of snot-nosed "punks" (their term) making sneering pseudoprotest with no serious or mature agenda. John Kay, German-born near the end of the war and moved, with a single mother, to Canada at an early age, had reason to think long and hard about human history from early youth, long before he picked up a guitar and formed a rock band. Billy Joe Armstrong and Co. were just a bunch of bored, spoiled, whining, pot-smoking, masturbating suburban kids sneering at "authority" (what "evil" authority in...
Floydian18: I think mattalac agrees with you. Steppenwolf was the real thing, GD just a bunch of snot-nosed "punks" (their term) making sneering pseudoprotest with no serious or mature agenda. John Kay, German-born near the end of the war and moved, with a single mother, to Canada at an early age, had reason to think long and hard about human history from early youth, long before he picked up a guitar and formed a rock band. Billy Joe Armstrong and Co. were just a bunch of bored, spoiled, whining, pot-smoking, masturbating suburban kids sneering at "authority" (what "evil" authority in the '90s when Green Day was in its heyday? The Clinton Administration?)in an pre-adolescent way.
don't ever mention green day and steppenwolf in the same context steppenwolf are about 50 times better than than those pretenders!
Floydian18: I think mattalac agrees with you. Steppenwolf was the real thing, GD just a bunch of snot-nosed "punks" (their term) making sneering pseudoprotest with no serious or mature agenda. John Kay, German-born near the end of the war and moved, with a single mother, to Canada at an early age, had reason to think long and hard about human history from early youth, long before he picked up a guitar and formed a rock band. Billy Joe Armstrong and Co. were just a bunch of bored, spoiled, whining, pot-smoking, masturbating suburban kids sneering at "authority" (what "evil" authority in...
Floydian18: I think mattalac agrees with you. Steppenwolf was the real thing, GD just a bunch of snot-nosed "punks" (their term) making sneering pseudoprotest with no serious or mature agenda. John Kay, German-born near the end of the war and moved, with a single mother, to Canada at an early age, had reason to think long and hard about human history from early youth, long before he picked up a guitar and formed a rock band. Billy Joe Armstrong and Co. were just a bunch of bored, spoiled, whining, pot-smoking, masturbating suburban kids sneering at "authority" (what "evil" authority in the '90s when Green Day was in its heyday? The Clinton Administration?)in an pre-adolescent way.