Welcome back to the Motherland of all things rock my friends. Let's light this candle!
Do you ever just sit and ponder the mysteries of the universe? Why are we here? What is our purpose? What would happen if I threw a bible, a honey bee, a Gibson Flying V Guitar, and 4 dudes from so-Cal into that machine form The Fly? Well, I can't tell you why we are here, or for what purpose. But as to the fly making machine.....I'll tell you what would happen muchachos, Stryper would happen! If you were to walk up to band leader and lead vocalist Michael Sweet and say "Michael I want to create a band that balances my 3 greatest loves in life...Jesus, Heavy Metal, and Honeybee's, but it just can't be done" he would use his christianity to reach down your throat and rip your still beating heart from it's tethers and make you eat it in repentance. Stryper has been blasting their own brand of bee themed christian death metal for almost 30 years! Appearing before audiences around the globe in their trademark yellow and black leather (which they insist is made of 100% bee leather by the way), Stryper screams our lords message to thousands of maladjusted teenagers every year. And as they mosh around punching and kicking eachother, you can see the message of peace and acceptance enter their scody little hearts. In his excerpt from a 1986 interview for Hustler Magazine, drummer and co founder of Stryper, Robert Sweet, talks about how very devoted the band is to their cause:
Hustler: "So Robert, what exactly is it that Stryper is hoping to accomplish here"
Robert: " Well, if just one kid goes back to the hotel room they rented to get drunk in and trash after the concert, and steals the Gideon Bible from the night stand...then it's all been worth it".
Hustler: "What has been worth it"?
Robert: "You know...everything"
Hustler: "You mean the money, women, drinking, drugs, fame....all that"?
Robert : "Ya man, all that's been totally worth it if we can save one person, you know"?
I get so mad when people try to convince me that Metal bands don't make good role models. I want to shove this article in their face, but the library computer won't let me do a search for "Hustler" so I can't find it.
Well anyhoo, I was never quite down with the idea of going to heaven to be honest. It sounded kinda weak. But if they pipe in some To Hell with the Devil from time to time, it might just be tolerable. So, lets all raise our homemade dandelion schnapps to Stryper!!
Till next time
V
1 comment:
I've heard that bee leather is the most sensual of all the insect hides.
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