Tuesday
Apr262011
Falling Red...The Next Guns n' Roses?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 12:02AM 
Yet another awesome Glam band for you today: Falling Red from Europe. Falling Red released Shake the Faith in 2010 via Rocksector Records. Take a listen to the clip below and you'll hear that sleaze and crunch. Now, I don't think Shake the Faith is the next Appetite for Destruction -- but it's still darn good and has that dirty rock n' roll vibe we all love.
The band has a new EP now called Hasta La Victoria Siempre (released just two weeks ago).
I guess maybe the best part about a band like Falling Red is that they are not afraid of sleaze - they own it. Listen:
Reader Comments (21)
I saw Alice In Chains at The Cat Club in NYC ironically opening for Mr. Big. I saw stuff like that all the time there, where the opening band was so far superior to the headliner. We still see that all the time still today, don't we, boyz?
I think Alice In Chains are legendary but they needed Cobain first and were influenced by Nirvana's sound.
But, no doubt Staley was the real deal and Alice In Chains was REAL ROCK'N'ROLL, and remains so today even without him. It was so clearly obvious after I saw them outshine the headliner Mr. Big, that I witnessed something extraordinary and had an epiphany reaffirming my knowledge regarding the difference between Art (Alice In Chains) and Artifice (Mr. Big).
On the one hand you had Alice In Chains playin' their guts out, carefree and blowin' the doors off the place. They sounded different than the showboating, more totally predictable AOR stylings of Mr. Big.
For all of Paul Gilbert's technique and Billy Sheehan's overplaying, they could not touch the genuine Real Rock'n'Rollness of Alice In Chains.
The problem was Mr. Big were so full of arrogant cockiness, they were too blind and too deaf to hear what was painfully obvious to everyone in that room in 1989. They had just been blown off the stage.
Slash is okay. I'll give him this... He is a REAL ROCKSTAR, thru and thru, but he's really quite unremarkable in his guitar style. His is a stylist lifting from the best. He's the generic sum total of Joe Perry, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page but not even close to any of their originality and inventiveness.
Slash is a copyist at best and he knows it.
As far as Cobain goes, HE was an original. It's not that he was as good at playin' as Slash, not even close. He could barely play, actually. What you boyz fail to realize is it's not about how good of a guitarist you are, it's what you CREATE with it!
It's about songwriting and Cobain was a great original songwriter who turned the genre of Rock'n'Roll upside down. They pegged him with the Grunge Scene, but he wasn't into any of that hype. That was Pearl Jam's trip and he despised Pearl Jam because he could tell they were poseurs.
Vedder is nothing more than a Yoddler and Pearl Jam was recycling the same old sh*t and still are.
Cobain was a REAL Rock'n'Roller! And the Glam Metallerz at the time Nirvana hit it big loved Nirvana because they could tell it was a REAL Rock Band.
He was into the same stuff they were, too. When he died they found all the Led Zeppelin, Who, AC/DC and Cheap Trick albums that were already released at the time, in his record collection.