Ever since rock n roll's birth in the mid 1950s, it has been under constant repression and attacks. In a time of racial inbalance, rock n roll was considered "black" music and banned by predominantly white radio stations. Rock n roll was also the first victim of the unjust and unconstitutional censorship when they refused to show Elvis on TV from the waist down. Then in the 70s, with the introduction of heavy metal, religious groups had a field day labelling such acts as Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, and KISS as satanic and immoral. To this day musicians - most often hard rock/heavy metal acts(but not excluding other genres) - have been blamed for violent acts such as homicide and suicide. Any person with half a brain should know a song cannot drive a person to kill. It's their own motives. If someone believes they heard a subliminal message in an Ozzy Osbourne song, it's that person's fault and not Ozzy's! No one puts subliminabl messages in music! That's just an excuse to put the blame on an artist for something someone else did on their own accord.
Rock music has never been taken seriously. Even when Dee Snider, lead singer of Twisted Sister, went to Capitol Hill to fight censorship laws, they acted as if it was a joke, when in reality it is a very serious battle. The biggest disrespect rock gets is from other genres, mainly whatever is considered mainstream and popular. I'm not saying everyone - because I know many people who listen to pop or rap and they remain indifferent to rock, and some even like a little rock - but a vast majority of teenybopper prisses and hip hop gangstas say rock is uncool, that is sucks and a whole load of bullshit like that and they pass judgement on stuff tehy know nothing about. It's evident that there are too many people who say what MTV tells them to.
We here in Dragon's Fire have devised a campaign to earn the respect rock deserves. It's called the Fight for Respect. I encourage metalheads, rockers, and anyone who likes respect to join together in our fight for musical equality. This is a hardcore battle against anyone who insults rock music, especially those passing judgement w/o knowing the artist/band. This is called the "Get what you give" mentality. Basically, if someone says to me "Oh AC/DC's gay! They suck! They're old talentless retards!" I'm going to say that right back to them about their music. An eye for an eye, a taste of their own medicine. If they don't like it they'll have to learn to stop disrespecting others. If you want respect you have to give it in return.
So if you respect every music no matter what you like or hate, I thank you for your cooperation. And if you're one of those pompous assholes who insults anything that's not your own, then beware because the Fight for Respect is coming at you full force!
Anyone who wants to show their support for the Fight for Respect, please email us at the Fight for Respect e-mail and give us your name to list here on the Fight for Respect page. If you love rock n roll, and hate being disrespected, FIGHT FOR RESPECT!!!
As you can see, Linkin Park won by a LANDSLIDE!!! So take that everyone who thinks metal is unpopular. Personally, I voted for AC/DC's Back in Black but that's just me.
GODDAMN!!! If you did not see Warning: Parental Advisory last night, you better catch the next rerun of it cuz it was DAMN GOOD!! And there were some pretty funny parts...not shit-yourself hilarious but funny nonetheless, like when Tipper Whore and all those other bitchy senators' wives were coming up w/a name for their "organization" before they settled on PMRC, they were spelling out different acronyms and one came out as POOP and another as PMS. I thought that was pretty funny. And what's even greater about the movie is they did not bleep out "shit" once and there was one time they did not bleep out "fucking" and that was when Dee Snider announces the title of his fan club as The Sick-Motherfucking Friends of Twisted Sister. Not a bleep at all. And since I taped the movie I went back and checked. Clear as a bell. Since I'm so fucking obsessed w/the censorship issue, I made a wav of the famous line from this wonderful movie so you know I'm not lying. Here it is.
So I'm telling you people, watch Warning: Parental Advisory! It's VH1, they rerun stuff over-and-over again all week...and it'll be on again in months to come too. I mean I must've seen that Hysteria movie about Def Leppard four times in the first week it premired. And you can still go to VH1.com for more info, video clips, and my favorite, the rock n box. Knock out a censor!!!
