What maintains cultures is continuity. To maintain continuity you have to VALUE continuity, and the essence of rock is breaking with the old, rebeling, destroying in some iterations.
There was a room of photos of 80’s era bands. None of them looked happy.
The posters in the gift shop consisted in either horror show bands like “Five Finger Death Punch”, and “Bullet for my Valentine”–none of them smiled, either, of course–or vapid pop to appeal to teenage girls.
Once you lose control, how do you regain it? If you regain it in a position of not having access to open, plentiful, sincere love, then you regain it in power. What else can one make of an album titled “Kill ’em all”, Metallica’s first?
All this anger makes sense to people. It is not just Other-destructive: it is SELF destructive. All power mongering is, since the root of malady is a loss of a self not dependent fully on context.
I’ll have more to say, but as usual I’ve overslept a bit. I never fuck up completely. I just don’t adhere to the highest standards of what is possible professionally. This work, in any event, is much more important to me.