METALPRIEST
Senior Member
Well the cool thing about music is people can just toss it out there. People like it or don't...some come around (to things they may have not liked before) or remain true to their tastes and opinions.
Aerosmith were great--THE greatest American rock band ever. They were equal to Led Zeppelin. I speak for the silent hard rocking Aerosmith fan--and I speak the truth---I always speak the truth (even if it's wrong), what I say comes from my heart. And Aerosmith has NO heart. They sold that with their soul to the corporate devil.
OK, got to ramble--I have a shrink appointment in 10 minutes!
It isn't always as simple as people selling out.
There are a heck of a lot of seasoned veteran musicians who don't play like they used to and many of them attribute that to them feeling they are "better" musicians or writers now than they were then.
I could name a bunch of musicians who have said publicly in interviews that they believe a lot of their old (classic) material to be cheesy, hard to listen to, too "noisy" or lacking substance.
Not saying Perry feels this way. I do know Lars Ulrich of Metallica does, though.
I remember seeing an interview with him (Ulrich) from about ten years ago in which he talked about how he felt his drumming on the old Metallica albums, which most people prefer to their newer stuff, was "all speed with no feeling or soul." To him, that was the biggest excuse for Metallica not doing the type of metal they used to because he also explained that the other guys in the group at the time (with the notable exception of Jason Newsted) felt the same way he did about their playing then versus now.
Just saying.
And not just that, but as artists mature, their music tends to do the same.
I think it depends on what their music was like while you were growing up, because I for one love albums like Get a Grip. It remains one of my favorites!
It isn't always as simple as people selling out.
There are a heck of a lot of seasoned veteran musicians who don't play like they used to and many of them attribute that to them feeling they are "better" musicians or writers now than they were then.