Suckiest bands that made it big...sort of.

[Swish]

Aerosmith. Elder statesmen of rock my @ss. That just shows you get respect if you hang in there and suck long enough. They were crappy and boring onstage even in their heyday. One time was enough for me in 1976. I had friends who were hardcore fans that saw them 4 or 5 times and then stopped because they sucked everytime. Yeah, Asia sucked but they were competent at playing their sucky music while Aerosmith was a studio band who couldn't get it up onstage. Throw in the whole "you be Keith and I'll be Mick" junior-high air guitar mentality of that group and you've got originality that ranks up there with Ann & Nancy posturing to Zeppelin in front of a full-length mirror - which they used to do. (I know, everybody has to start somewhere but Heart always sounded to me like they were still in the burbs with a brazillion other corporate 70's acts.) I don't usually go negative on this board, mainly because I despised Lester Bangs. Plus, I figure what the hell, at least crappy bands who are successful are obviously fullfilling a need for somebody and at least they're doing it whereas I am not. I hold my ire for the crap bands, not their fans. (Except maybe for Van Helsing. What were you guys thinking??) But what irks me about Aerosmith is how the abundantly lipped one is turned to whenever something "authoritative" needs to be said about rock 'n' roll because, you know, they're Classic Rawk. This is a scam, people. It's like that Who documentary where they kept turning to Bryan Adams for his opinion. Exqueeze me? Looks like somebody's got a good agent with marketing skills. And that's what it was always about with Aerosmith. Weird though, I still think "Last Child" sounds awesome. Maybe they shoulda stuck with the funk.

Okay, Swish, there's my vent. Maybe it's crazy but that one guy said Plant couldn't sing.

Holler if you need more, I'm gonna go watch Avatar.

...possibly better than average with a couple decent tunes, but the last couple decades are just el-stinko. And Bryan Adams? How could I leave him off the list. If I hear his pathetic "Summer of 69" one more time, I may have to hunt him down and beat the snot out of him.

Swish