European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Entertainment old age catches up with Tii Toinby Michael Cranberry los Angeles times a recent assignment took me to a heavy Metal concert featuring bands with names that sounded like those of terrorist groups body count. Metallica Cuns n roses. God did i feel old. It had t helped that the night before i d gone to see a Rocker i very much like Bruce Springsteen who at 43 showed More Energy and raw intensity in 31/2 hours than Many athletes do in a season. That made me feel even older. Quot the Boss Quot is three years my senior. Both shows were a grim revelation. Many in the Springsteen crowd looked my age or older. They also looked tired somewhat weather beaten and As the night wore on increasingly nervous. I knew immediately what their looks suggested it s already 11 15, and the kids Are Home with a teen age baby Sitter. And. This is a school night Quot but it took the heavy Metal show to make me feel every bit like the suburban father of to i happen to be. I drove to the parking lot expecting to feel confused alienated even lost. I was not disappointed. Upon leaving my car i scanned the crowd to see which of the 43,000 customers i ought to interview first. My eyes settled on a Blackt shirt that had stamped across its front in giant Block letters the four letter obscenity my Baptist mom used to say Quot is the absolute worst bar none Don t Ever use it Quot the body inside the shirt belonged to a i a year old Man child. I asked the usual questions name age occupation where he lived. Me responded so loudly and aggressively that saliva shot out of his Mouth like rounds irom a Tommy gun. Quot do i work hey i Don t do nothing dude i live with my parents and get missed up even Day. I m Here cause Metallica is a a amps file the generation Gap guns at roses left is. Bruce Springsteen. A amps Anita Gosch bleeping kick ass band dude Quot one of his friends showed me the Needle Hole in his left Arm. A ring of blood oozed from the sore. I looked nervously for a hypodermic. His friends crowded around me. A million thoughts crossed my mind. Quot Are they going to stick me am i moments away from a crippling addiction Quot Settle Down i said to myself you sound like Ward Cleaver. Needle Hole gave me his name age and City of residence and with breath that could stagger a horse pointed to the bleeding sore and shouted in my face Quot the stuff i put in Here is the Best Man Quot As i backed away smiling nervously i thought of a line from a John Printe song circa 1972 Quot there s a Hole in daddy s Arm where All the Money  look what daddy begat. A the rest of the night was just As depressing though not As threatening. A foursome All jobless and appearing not to care said they borrowed the $125 for four tickets and the Money needed for to shirts that ranged from $23 to $30. Quot we re not voting Quot said a Pale thin 20-year-old woman in a voice aching with desperation. Quot it would t help us  Quot none of the choices Are Good Quot echoed her 16-year-old Friend whose Wispy hair was the same color of the Dallas cowboys helmets a metallic Blue. This i thought to myself is the future of America a Blue haired warriors fighting a Multi trillion Dollar deficit. Their companion a 22-year-old weightlifter named tripper said he liked what he called the right Wing anticommunist message of guns n roses and Lead Singer Axl Rose. I immediately thought of Woodstock Summers of peace and love and wondered where it All went. Quot How serious a threat is communism Quot i asked. Quot what Quot he said belching his Beer. Quot never mind Quot i said. Just As suddenly Ward Cleaver reappeared. Fifteen years from now will my kids be sitting Blue haired and broke in some stadium parking lot waiting for a screaming Ninny whose first name sounds like an Auto part these people appear just As disenfranchised As my Vietnam War Era generation did but am i mistaken in How i m Reading them Are they As nakedly mindless As they appear was t the 60s rebellion at least More thoughtful More. Full of heart tripper went on and on sounding like a Public relations Man for the tattooed evangelist Axl Rose. Quot yeah right Quot l thought Quot upstanding citizen Leader of our  just As quickly i thought of one of my heroes filmmaker Woody Allen and had to concede that in 1992, Axl s headlines Are far More desirable than his. I left the stadium feeling troubled As if i d interviewed this enormous dead end. My generation was at least More caring a was t it More hopeful yes i have to believe it was. So what happened tripper whose Mother is about my age attempted to enlighten me. Quot our parents started something in the 60s, but they did t finish it off Quot he said. So. What happened Quot Don t you know Quot he said As if the answer was obvious. Quot they got old Man. They got  How you too can sound hip about modern . Cons1dine the Baltimore Sun i Lave you Ever read rolling Stone or watched mtg Ami found yourself wondering when pop fans stopped using English to describe their favorite music do terms like Quot nosh Quot Quot techno Quot Quot Sample Quot and Quot grunge Quot make you feel very old and out of it Well Frei no More. Simply by memorizing the following definitions you too will be Able to discuss the latest trends in pop music a and without actually having to listen to the stuff either alternative tall tur nah Tiv n. 1. Short for Quot alternative Roiko and generally t Onn Otoji any pop style too uncompromising arcane or intense Lor mainstream consumption but not so weird As to be unplayable on i v. 2, any pop style favored by College age hipsters. Blunt Blunt n. T. Hip hop Slang for a marijuana cigarette. Diva Dee huh n. 1. A talented flashy female opera Singer a Uprinia Donna. 1. A big voiced flamboyantly expressive female pop  one specializing in soul or dance music examples include Chaka Khan Gloria Caynor Martha Wash. Grunge Grunt n. 1. Rock style generally associated with alternative Metal bands from the Seattle area especially groups associated with the sub pop record Label similar in feel to Bard Rock but different in Altitude drawing More from Punk Rock ennui than heavy Metal grandeur. Hands include nirvana Pearl Jam screaming Trees sound Garden and Alice in chains. 2. A fashion craze drawing from the Seattle Rock scene in which Couturier sell Thrift shop clothing a flannel shirts Rock band to shirts torn jeans and knit Caps a at Premium prices to the desperately trendy adj. 3. Of electric guitars having a ditty distorted tone similar in sound to heavy Metal guitar but lacking the virtuosity. Hard Core hard Kohr adj. 1. The purest and most demanding music in any pop style that which appeals Only to the most knowledgeable and devoted fans e.g., eschewing pop he Only listened to hard Core rap. N. 2. Hyper fast and determinedly inaccessible form of Punk Rock originally referring to Carly-�?T80s Punk Rock scenes in los Angeles and Washington . Hip hop hip Hopf n. 1. Urban afrocentric cultural movement originating in the late 70s and encompassing rap break dancing and Graffiti Art 2. Term used by hard Core rappers to explain the difference Between their music and Hammer s. Industrial in Pius tree Al n. 1. Music style pioneered by the German group inst Urzend Neubau Len using amplified construction equipment As instrumentation. 2. A term applied for want of a better one to the Abr sively electronic dance music popularized by such groups As ministry Skinny Puppy or front 242. Loop Loop n. 1. A piece of recording tape that has been Cut and spliced so that recorded fragments can seem to repeat infinitely. 2. Any recorded musical phrase whether from live musicians or samples that has been edited into a continuous ostinato. 3. The Central rhythmic phrase on a rap recording v. 4. To assemble samples drum machine patterns and or other sounds into a repetitious rhythmic phrase either on tape or using a sequencer. Mack daddy Mak dad be n. 1. A Weil dressed and successful Pimp. 2. Any stylish and powerful male in Urban Street culture. 3. The younger member of Kris Kross. Mosh Marsh v. Dance favored by thrash fans who hurtle against one another while flailing arms and Bobbing in time usually includes stage diving in which audience members leap onto the crowd from the stage and crowd surfing where the stage diver is passed Over the Heads of mothers in apparent gratitude for not having squashed anyone. Mosh pit n. Area of crowd in which moshing takes place. New age Noo Aye n. 1. Restful reflective mostly instrumental Pup style originally intended As music for Reading or meditation 2. General term applied to quiet Folk and jazz derived instrumental music popularized in the 1980s by Windham Hill records typical artists include George Winston Alex de Crassi David Lanz and Kitaro. Adj. 3, ulring vapid vacuous sounding seeming like High concept elevator music. New acoustic Noo a Koo stick n. Folk oriented improvisational pop style using mostly Folk instruments acoustic guitar fiddle mandolin Banjo double Bass and drawing equally from jazz Bluegrass and Folk traditions new acoustic artists include Dario anger Mike Marshall David Grismon acoustic Alchemy. Rave Rayval n. All night dance party featuring oddly dressed energetically undulating ravers a brutally loud techno music hypnotic lighting Vitamin compounds described As Quot smart drugs Quot and an assortment of illegal stimulants especially ecstasy or  riot or urls by uht Guilz n. 1. Post feminist pop movement drawing from bands like Bikini kill and babes in to land focusing on aggressive feminine Pride and flouting of sexual stereotypes generally easier to find in newspaper or Magazine trend stories than in nightclubs or Cona it Halls. A Sample Sam Puhl v. 1. To digitally record a Short sound or sounds Lor purposes of playback editing or musical manipulation e.g., he sampled the Birdsall to use in the rhythm track n. 2, any sound so recorded e.g., the single includes samples of James Brown Juk and traffic in the Lincoln Tunnel. Show Gazer shoo Cay Zur n. 1. British Post psychedelic pop style characterized by buzzing feedback Laden guitar noise dreamy Dirge a Mph re Wist us child like vocals heavily influenced by the Jesus term derive f0 in Lude Luis it my bloody Valentine ride. Hnushn0 Tek Noh n heavy synthesized dance music derived from Britain i r �?o"rk8�?~u d�tr0it but pm up Lari a in Belgium cd Bantam distinguished by Short repetitious melodic phrases Gratis Rolv aggressive electronic instrumentation and minimal vocals i found on style or by the -2 vie thrash thrash n. Form of heavy Metal Rock favouring Jackhammer brutally fast tempos Wilh Frics generally devoted in crud a a me8�?o�?T  Quot Quot Suben a a a Quot Imming thrash with hard Core Punk re amp or Ltd a m0 a a i Quot Brm id by a it tenable than 14 stripes Magazine december 24, 1992