iRetro

Long time no write. In my free time of the last week or so, I've been recording VH1's Rock Mania to see that which was once popular. I also came across a song I did enjoy back then but really didn't realize the meaning of it till now. Bon Jovi "Dead Or Alive." Did the countless bands of metal/hard rock go down the road of drinking & drugs just because it was there to do? Or were they driven towards the insanity of it all from being pushed so hard by management & promoters. Must keep recording. Must keep touring. No break allowed. You must make us more money. And in the end, when the music fades & all is stripped away, what's left is an overmarketed & overpromoted wreck & poof...it all becomes a dust in the wind memory, whether nightmare or not for the individual. Part of this revisiting was a rockumentary on the Def Leppard's Hysteria album I watched this week. Anyway so I pondered upon such things & then wrote...

The metal came & it was time to rock out
The jams, the intros, the leads, & shredders all around
I don't care what you looked or acted like just make your big rockin' sound
How'd it turn into big hair & strange glam gowns?
Make the big bigger & party on until you all fall or drown
And don't forget to do ballad drool to woo the masses & crowds
As if that wasn't enough how about doing an unplugged set & get you turned down?
Then poof the game was over & nowhere could any of you be found
Ya crashed & burned from being pushed beyond the limits playing town to town
Some died in their addictions & darkness that did enshroud
Welcome to the jungle baby where you'll fall from the top & crash into the ground
Was the ride worth it as you think back from the now?
Some of the remnants have done their rehab & are touring around
'Tis strange to think upon then & now & the attempted rebounds
Hard rock once was & was the dominant sound
But all has faded away & most of ya all have taken your final stage bows
There was dangerous & deadly madness to it all & you became the pawns & clowns
Welp this concludes my retro tour of the then & of stuff becoming unwound

Until later comes turn it up to retro.