{"id":45,"date":"2018-02-13T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T18:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2018-03-26T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T16:23:00","slug":"life-sex-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/life-sex-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Sex &#038; Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_ZEgoOTrM2vo\"><div id=\"lyte_ZEgoOTrM2vo\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZEgoOTrM2vo\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZEgoOTrM2vo\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/ZEgoOTrM2vo\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"420\" height=\"216\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>This is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZEgoOTrM2vo\">official music video for Life Sex &amp; Death&#8217;s School is For Fools<\/a>.\u00a0 Their album The Silent Majority was released around the peak of the hair-metal era in the early 90&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a gold mine of information here, but I&#8217;ll focus just on the band&#8217;s look.<\/p>\n<p>We have short-haired Stanley out front, hamming up his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/artist\/life-sex-death-mn0001194589\/biography\">homeless front man gimmick<\/a> with a perfectly dirty thrift-store suit that would look at home on Cosmo Kramer if you gave it a dry clean. In back, we have three long-hairs doing a standard hair-fling, jump-around routine.<\/p>\n<p>The feeling for me is one of extreme disconnect between the front man and the band. It feels like we&#8217;re looking at either (a) three metal guys who got sick of looking for a good match and finally let Stanley in the band to move forward, or (b) a band-leader front man who picked up three metal guys off the street as a backing band. Ultimately there is no Band As A Gang vibe. I think what the band members are wearing plays a big role in creating (or at least not reducing) this disconnect. I remember when the album was released, a few of the songs really resonated with me, but I never took to the band itself. I think I just couldn&#8217;t relate to any of the band members as avatars for the projection of my own ego.<\/p>\n<p>LSD could be the basis for a case study in gimmickry, namely Stanley&#8217;s homeless drifter shtick. The broad questions, perhaps addressed in the future, would be (a) was the gimmick a good one, and (b) was it properly executed. Lots of great ideas perfectly executed fall flat in the marketplace. Was LSD&#8217;s gimmick a great idea executed well, or was it doomed from the start for improper conception and\/or execution? Did it ultimately give the band more attention than they otherwise would have gotten, or did it ultimately box them in and hurt their career? As I said, here&#8217;s a little seam of gold waiting to be mined.<\/p>\n<p>Principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Band As\u00a0 A Gang<\/li>\n<li>Band Needs A Uniform<\/li>\n<li>The fine line between manifested personality and gimmick<\/li>\n<li>Superfluous, exaggerated physicality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch this video on YouTube This is the official music video for Life Sex &amp; Death&#8217;s School is For Fools.\u00a0 Their album The Silent Majority was released around the peak of the hair-metal era in the early 90&#8217;s. There&#8217;s a gold mine of information here, but I&#8217;ll focus just on the band&#8217;s look. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleyneil.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}