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I love King's X. They never got enough attention and I don't understand why. "Black Flag" was a perfectly great straight-up MTV-friendly rock song, and even that didn't get them very far. They're a real musician's band: rich compositions, intricate technique, lots of dynamics, flawless vocal harmonies. They remind me of Dream Theater in one of their more metallic moments.
King's X is definitely in the too-competent-for-their-own-good camp, along with Dream Theater, Queensryche, pretty much all of those solo-guitar-wankery types (Steve Via, Malmstein, et naus.), and so on. Not the worst category to end up in, although it does involve insufficient mass adulation...
They came to town (the Washington region) a couple of years ago. But it was one of those triple-bill shows and they were the first act which means they would have played for about 30 minutes. I can't stand seeing one of my favorite bands reduced to that stature, it ruins the experience. I saw Dream Theater on a quintuple-bill, but they were the headliner so they got about 75 minutes. It was billed as a "heavy metal festival" so they were restricted to a narrow slice of their repertoire, but it was still great. Ironically, the #2 act, who played for about 50 minutes, was Queensryche. We saw Queensryche in their heyday, on a double bill from a dream: opening for Metallica. They did the entire "Operation Mindcrime" album and Metallica did the entire "And Justice for All" album. A night to remember! We caught Yngvie Malmsteen at the top of his game too, headlining a stadium tour. We saw Joe Satriani a few years later when he was no longer in radio rotation, in a 1000-seat venue. Discovered that his roots were in jazz fusion before he decided to change styles and make some money. The dude can play circles around guys like Al DiMeola. I was in high school when the Big Debate was whether the piano (e.g. Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis) or the tenor saxophone (e.g. Boots Randolph and... well there really was nobody else, I think he played yakity-sax on every record) would become the defining instrument of rock and roll. Then Dwayne Eddy and Chuck Berry burst on the scene and almost overnight the guitar stole the spotlight. It's been a half-century ride and I'm not sure there's much more to be discovered by guitarists. Some other instrument will become prominent. What I'm really wondering is how long the and-TWO-and-FOUR rock and roll backbeat will continue to be the defining rhythm of nearly all human music. Three generations of people in nearly every corner of the planet now instinctively expect all music to have that pattern of syncopation. At some point it's going to become just a constraint to be burst out of.
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