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Matisyahu, Meet Joseph Israel
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 A couple of Sundays ago I visited the post office and picked up the latest issue of An Honest Tune. I flipped through it quickly and found that for those who can't get enough Matisyahu, there's great news. Meet Joseph Israel.
This is a sign of the times for rock n' roll. In 1986 the biggest rock star in the world was Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, a guy who had a new O.D. to tell you about in every interview. Videos filled with girls in bikinis and fast cars. Sex, drugs and rock n' roll to the big-haired maximum.
We move along to circa 1996 and the R.E.M. video "Everybody Hurts." Michael Stipe much less than big-haired, no haired, hovering between pensive and morose as he sings by a freeway filled with glum commuters. No ditties about the wild life here. Where's the girls? Everything extraordinarily politically correct for the `90's.
And now in 2006 we not only have rock stars who don't celebrate sex, drugs and rock n' roll, they don't even mix meat with dairy. Billy Gibbons wore the beard as a point of style but Joseph Israel and Matisyahu wear it out of fear of offending God. I think I'm gonna go scout an Amish colony for the Next Big Thing. |
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Posted by Art | 10:36 PM EST |
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