Cannot post anymore on the last DD thread started 9/08. So I went to the concert last night (my 3rd non-classical, non-jazz, non-world-music concert ever!) and I was REALLY impressed w/ how good they were live! "Real music" played on instruments is still alive. And 50 year olds are still rockin', god bless 'em! Neon Trees also fabulous. After the Timbaland fiasco (when the band came in to the studio w/ their instruments, they said he didn't recognize what "those things" were, like the bass guitar), they got their groove back.

On last night

http://blogs.laweekly.com...php?page=2

On their "revival"

http://articles.latimes.c...n-20110413

Thank God Simon got his voice back! He was going through some serious stuff, DD had to cancel many concerts earlier this year. Glad you had a great time.

I'm going to see them on Friday in Las Vegas. They know how to put on a show.

Nick715 said:

Thank God Simon got his voice back! He was going through some serious stuff, DD had to cancel many concerts earlier this year. Glad you had a great time.

Oh, didn't know. I read a couple articles now - hope his voice doesn't blow out completely one day.

In one of the articles, they discuss (again - recurring theme for past decade) for cultural innovation, or what I call iconoclasm, or simply DangerMusicSexRomance, is lacking nowadays in rock music.

Here's an excerpt:

Interviewer: People say there's so much sex in the media, but I don't see that today's teens have anything like Duran Duran -- they've got 'Glee' and 'High School Musical.' Any thoughts on why it seems like things are tamer than when you guys came around?

Simon: I know what you mean. It's a little bit more institutionalized, I agree. But I think you'll get a natural reaction to that. At the same time there are a lot of independent artists doing exactly what we've been doing, in their own way. And the bubble bursts. The more 'Pop Idol' and 'Glee' and 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' you get -- the more the lid is put on independence -- the more the pressure builds up inside the pot. And when it does blow, people really go for it. I think they'll go for it again. Right now we're just going through a phase.