a message from Christian Death's booking agent

[Jeremy]

Sure, Piper sounds way different than Dark Side, no doubt, but the
underlying themes are the same, and they're still the same kind of a
band. Peter Gabriel's Genesis sounds way different than the sucky Phil
Collins version, but they're still making progressive rock.

But deathrock and metal are two different kinds of music. If you're a
fan of old deathrock, a metal band would not be the first band I would
recommend to you, and that's what Christian Death is now. However, if
you like metal, then good news! Christian Death is a metal band now.

Personally, I think the concern about who the membership is kind of
lame, but to each his own, I guess. I just think it's dumb to think
that not only must the band sound right, and look right, and shake
their pelvises in just the right way, but they have to *be* the right
people or else I WONT BE ABLE TO ROCK OUT. But if that's the most
important thing on your mind as a music fan, then go for it, I guess.



On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Manny <manny at garfieldartworks.com> wrote:
> that's what I said. go to the myspace and make your decision.
>
> but your point is slightly off.
>  The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon are WAY different than Piper at
> Gates of Dawn.
> Abacab and Mama are SOMEWHAT different than Lamb Lies Down.
> Although both stayed in the same genre, both went in a slicker
> direction.
>
> In that respect, the analogy also holds for Christian Death.
> What Valor is doing now is certainly goth, but different goth than Only
> Theatre of Pain or even Scriptures. It's not different enough, however,
> that someone *outside* the goth scene could really detect it easily.
>
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Jeremy wrote:
>
>> Bands like Pink Floyd and Genesis (two good examples of bands which
>> lost their lead singer but kept on going anyway) kept the name and the
>> vision of the band throughout with no break. Pink Floyd continued to
>> be about psychadelia, Genesis continued to be about prog. However, the
>> band Christian Death ceased to exist, and then was brought back in a
>> different form and in a different artistic direction. Nowadays there's
>> only one original member if I'm not mistaken.
>>
>> Not that "original membership" in a band should make a giant
>> difference in my opinion. Caring a lot about original membership is
>> just playing into the culture of celebrity -- one of the points Pink
>> Floyd made in The Wall. But the band sounds very different than they
>> used to. They're a different *kind* of band with one member holding
>> the string tenuously together, and a lot of time between then and now.
>>
>> So, does that make them the "real" Christian Death? Does it matter? I
>> guess that's an aesthetic decision that each listener can make for
>> themselves.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Manny <manny at garfieldartworks.com>
>> wrote:
>>> just remind people of this:
>>> rozz did 1 record. then broke up the band.  then started it again 1
>>> year later w/ Valor.  many years and records go by, with both Rozz and
>>> Valor.
>>> Rozz quits.  Valor continues.....
>>> Rozz gets offered a ton of money to play 1 show. He says they paid me
>>> so much money that i had to call it Christian death.
>>> the promoters recorded and released the live album.
>>> Rozz doesnt do that again. rozz dies.
>>> valor still continues...
>>>
>>> remind people that SYD BARRETT was in Pink Floyd first.  is The Wall
>>> not the real pink floyd then?
>>>
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