Another concert
Well, here we are again. Another massively hyped concert has come and gone. This year it wasn’t Kanye West that I missed (I’m still regretting that, but I couldn’t find a ticket), but the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
You know, for a band that hasn’t made more than two or three good songs since 1991 (the year “Blood Sugar Sex Magik,” RHCP’s only album I can stand, came out), they sure have sold a ton of albums, as well as other miscellaneous merchandise. And honestly, I can’t figure it out. To me, almost every one of their songs sounds the same.
Possibly, it could just have to do with the same reason bands like Mötley Crüe and Ratt were popular in the Eighties, or to a lesser extent, Vanilla Ice in the early Nineties (I’ve still got “Ice Ice Baby” going through my head). They were around at the right place at the right time, and rode the wave of popularity all the way to the bank, and eventually to bankruptcy and drug abuse.
But back to my main point. Why can’t we ever have more than the musical flavor of the week come to the Assembly Hall? Going to see Tenacious D would be pretty cool. Why couldn’t the Hall book them? Or what about (you could see this coming) Metallica? They haven’t been around this area for years, and they are better musicians, songwriters, and performers than RHCP.
Either way, I’m boycotting the Assembly Hall until the Illinois men’s basketball team gets better, they start booking better bands, or they keep booking the same bands but get Nine Inch Nails to come back.
— Carl Zielinski