Thanks Mike...nice to hear some background on the man behind the legend.
Part of me is glad I missed out on all that, as I was the only white kid in
my neighborhood and was busy routinely sneaking on the public transit to go
to the mall and play arcade games or trade fat laces with my other homeboys
from the East Side Breakers crew. Then we might head to the Lawson's on the
corner and steal packs of baseball cards while blaring early Latin Rascals
or West Street Mob electro breaks on my buddy Tony's ghetto blaster...if we
were lucky we might find a couple of cardboard boxes big enough to duct tape
together and drag them off the the field in the middle of the apartment
complex and get our uprock on. As for "power chords" and "rawk", that was
and still is a completely foreign concept.
Awwww, memories...misty water-color memories...of the way we were.
J to tha...
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>From: Mike Brown <mike@hyperreal.org>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] The words are DEF LEPPARD!!!
>Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 12:39:17 -0700 (PDT)
>
>donna summer wrote:
> > Listen, I give massive street cred to Leppard for having a one armed
>drum,
> > and pyromania is fucking great, but the follow up that was big in the
>late
> > 80's is fucking terrible...
>
>Someone mentioned Robert John 'Mutt' Lange. In all seriousness, he
>shouldn't
>be completely overlooked (well, he can be mostly overlooked, but not
>completely). His style did make heavy use of studio effects to emphasize
>the
>dancier elements of his proteges, in a much more polished way than a lot of
>the other pop-metal dreck that was big at the time.
>
>That's not to say Lange took his cues from Kraftwerk and Moroder, or
>strayed
>very far from the formula that spawned the Kiss Army, but his heavy hand in
>the percussive sound of both The Cars and Def Leppard surely did help
>elevate
>dance music in the public eye, at a time when white teenagers were becoming
>increasingly hostile toward anything that didn't rawk. There were legions
>of
>kids who wouldn't be caught dead buying 'breakdance music', rap, freestyle
>or
>disco, but they would dance around their poster-bedecked bedrooms to
>anything
>that had power chords and a 'good beat'. Lange fed them exactly what they
>were
>hungry for, and in so doing, unknowingly primed them for a day when they
>might
>see the divide between 'their' dance music and 'ours' as not being so vast,
>after all. That's my theory, anyway.
>
>For a limited time, I've put up a little something for the adventurous at
>http://hyperreal.org/~mike/def/ ... click on the graphic and enjoy. (And
>that
>mix isn't much different than the LP version, actually).
>
> - Mike
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