![]() To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Coming out of the record store, you actually felt like these records were made in the time you lived in."īLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. And it really was reflected in the sounds of the music, the lyrics - the ambiguous, strange lyrics - just general insanity. It was filling up the record stores and going out to people. There was all this music coming out - and it wasn't even getting on the radio. The times felt crazy, and the music sounded crazy. ![]() It was reflected immediately, especially in music. "We had riots every single summer, and they were drafting people to go to the Vietnam war. "It was worse than it was now," he added. And the other time when I was really young, I remember being 12 years old in 1969 and America was on fire back then. ![]() He elaborated in an interview with HollywoodLife: " ties in an interesting that I had, in that, in my life now, I've been through two real, media-approved dystopia times - one being the last four years of crazy government, crazy fights, civil wars, post-truth madness, plus COVID. A no-man's land of hard rock that still had remnants of psychedelia and garage punk but had abandoned any notion of 'flower power' or frat house fun." This was like a playlist from the fourth dimension … strange bits of musical obscurity, mostly dredged up from that inglorious and freaky 'twilight zone' time that preceded arena rock, heavy metal, reggae and disco. These were not the popular hits of the time. Of course, these tunes have also been in my head for more or less my whole life. The world roared 'Dystopia! Apocalypse! Revolution!' I'd heard those words before, and they brought to mind my childhood in the late '60s/early '70s … and the music … and short playlist of songs (just one of many) that I'd been carrying around with me on my whatever device to listen to before shows. "I didn't feel much like writing," Wyndorf said in a press release, "but working on anything was better than watching the news as hospitals filled up, people died, and American politics went bat-shit crazy. The album was conceived and recorded during the pandemic and is composed of "strange bits of musical obscurity," in the words of Wyndorf. MONSTER MAGNET released its first covers album, "A Better Dystopia", last May. Doctors say I should be as good as new by summer's end and then we can start making up for lost time. Wyndorf says in a statement: "My apologies to everybody for dropping out at this time. MONSTER MAGNET lead singer Dave Wyndorf suffered a bike accident earlier in the year and is currently in physical therapy. Due to back injury, MONSTER MAGNET has announced the cancelation of its performance at Desertfest New York 2022 in May and its European summer 2022 tour.
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