I Can't Wait to be 50 and Reunite the Compliments.

So re-unions are usually a bad idea, that goes for high school, families, you getting back together with the gang from college and bands are no exception. Because people, at least we should all strive to, progress; they do not stay in the same mindset and laugh at the same jokes. So when you get back together after 10 years and the spark is gone it leaves you a little deflated. This is the case for most reunions involving bands as well but there are the key exceptions: X (saw them and they hadn’t missed a step sounding like they stepped right outta 1980), New Order (who rose from the ashes of Joy Division following Ian Curtis’ death but I don’t think they count since they are a whole other band), the Stooges got back together and sounded pretty vicious and other I didn’t think about. But these are the exception not the rule. There are two types of reunions: where the band gets back together without a member or the other type, which is less offensive and usually more successful, when they band reunites as a whole. When the Sex Pistols reunited, it screamed sell-out, which it was and they also sucked on stage and without bassist extradonaire Sid Vicious how could they not? The most offensive reunion is, to me, the Who. After Keith Moon died in 1980 the band got back together not just to tour but also to record an album. Then if that wasn’t bad enough after John Entwistle died, in the coolest way ever, they have proceeded to continue on as see in all its atrocity at Live 8. I know Townshend wrote all the songs and he’s one of the best rhythm guitarist ever but the Ox and Mooney added the rhythm section, one of the Who’s greatest attributes, and all the personality to the band. Who’s gonna hold down the personality department now? Roger Daltry? I don’t fucking think so. Another attack on music fans everwhere is the Shit-fits, which is the Misfits without Glenn Danzig. Which is funny because DANZIG WROTE ALL THE SONGS. What are they doing with Michael Graves up there? And nowadays Jerry Only sings and they put out an album of old ‘50s hits. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Danzig would be rolling in his grave if he were dead but since he’s not he should just beat the fuck out of these imposters. One more example is when the Doors instruments player got the dude from the Cult to replace Jim Morrison thus creating the Doors of the 21st Century. What in the hell is that? Morrison was the Doors to most people (not me I kinda hate the Doors because of Morrison and actually like the music somewhat) and now he’s been replaced. Rob Tyner died making that two of the original MC5 down but for some reason brother Wayne Kramer and the boys thought it was a good idea to keep on playing even though they had broke up in 1972. So they recruited a pair of replacement singers and a slew of guest guitarist to replace the irreplaceable Sonic Smith and toured the world and elsewhere. This actually did not turn out as bad as it should have thanks to the facts that DKT, as they deemed themselves, could still play plenty good, and the inclusion of Mark Arm of Mudhoney, who has one of the greatest rock and roll voice America ever produced. Still the whole affair had an air of lameness about it but I guess that’s what you get when you get Evan Dando from the Lemonheads involved.