Are you really rocking out if you are not making a mad face? I mean, are you really rocking out if you tune your guitar down to C and break out the death metal hell of loud rock with a smile on your face?

I say that you are not really rocking out unless you either look like you are totally pissed off or you need to take a serious shit.

What do you think?

EDIT: I mean, sometimes you have to make the mad face when you are just listening to some loud rock... it is absolutely mandatory when playing it!

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[This message was edited Wed Jan 8 11:09:49 PST 2003 by IceNine]

from your avatar i would assume you are rockin on, bad boy

XxAxX said:

I have been known to rock the fuck out from time to time.

:LOL:

the MAD FACE is MANDITORY
like biting your tounge while
REALLY GETTING DOWN dancing...

00769BAD said:

That's what I'm saying...

Do people make the mad face when they are really getting into Backstreet Boys or Britney Spears???

IceNine said:

Yea, they do. Just watch MTV.

sag10 said:

You gotta be shitting me!

I always wondered what the hard rockers were so pissed off about...

IceNine said:

No, I am not! I always thought those faces were reserved for Metallica, or White Zombie..

teller said:

You cannot channel the evil energy of Lucifer with a smile on your face, silly!

:LOL:

sag10 said:

I just cannot imagine young teenagers making the mad face to bubblegum pop... strange indeed!

I know that loud rock has been a catalyst in MANY fights and various beatings... I wonder if anyone has ever gotten so worked up that they had to release a severe beating on someone while listening to N-Sync.

IceNine said:

Maybe out of digust or the torment endured listening to it.

Moonbeam said:

:LOL:

That WOULD happen if I was forced to listen to those guys!

The real truth is that you have to sling your guitar really, really low, making it hard to hit barre chords and causing early onset of carpal tunnel syndrome. This will cause your hands to hurt, helping you make the mad face!

tommyalma said:

I can tell you for a FACT that this is the truth!

I am listening to SUPERJOINT RITUAL and trying not to make the mad face at any point... it is difficult... I feel like beating someone up!

:EVIL:

The mysterious "multiple zero star voter" is amusing me and is making it hard for me to make the mad face now... goddamn you, mystery voter!

:LOL:

IceNine said:

Shouldn't it make you feel like drawing a pentagram on the floor and getting a contact high from the five joints you lit, one at each point?

(like Gargamel, only with the munchies)

tommyalma said:

Shit, you can't listen to Superjoint Ritual without doing that... I am just trying to subvert the mad face.

:LOL:

I believe that you can be totally rocking out without the requisite face. I've seen it done. And the person's calm demeanor makes it all the more evil. Like, how do they contain themselves?

See for example, Robert Smith.

Now in reaction to the music, that's a totally different bag. Usually I can't contain myself. I'm usually flailing about the room, screaming, spitting, what have you. Just generally in the mood to fuck shit up.
[This message was edited Wed Jan 8 13:21:59 PST 2003 by TRON]

Great question.

I'm not sure about the face but when I was younger and pissed, I played it on the guitar (and people felt it).

A lot of E string in various rhythms mostly fast. Now Slayer doesn't work for me. I still enjoy a little "hell awaits" once in a while but I'm not "right there" with it.

What are people so pissed off about? That's a silly question, pick something.

Eight string bass and tuned down to D are two things that really helps convey the anger.

TRON said:

Shit... I jump around on stage like a goddamned LUNATIC... I break shit... I have even fallen down on stage and made it look like a Satanic convulsion without missing a note!

I can see how a calm demeanor could be pretty evil though... I will have to look into this.

A man playing rock MUST have the rock face... otherwise it just isn't as powerful...

Now, me... I don't make the rock face while listening to rock.

The same use 2 apply with rap music, i mean u weren't really considered gansta if u dared 2 show ur pearly whites, Hammer got critized for that ... but then there was Will Smith who changed all that ... you see rappers smiling around everywhere... I think Once Kelly Osburn find her Prince charming of darkness ... she will change rock music and u will see hard rockers smiling everywhere .

JamesMarshallHendrix said:

Take the guitars down to C and use 11 gauge strings... you will feel the EVIL!

DigitalLisa said:

Onyx - THE MAD FACE INVASION!

AzureStar said:

One could argue that you're not really listening then.

"Show the fat frown 'cause I'm down, so take a look around." - Ice Cube, "Wicked"

DigitalLisa said:

Thank goodness for The Osburns

I have just killed a co-worker in the stairwell... I feel better now.