Babe in Toyland.

I miss being young, fearless and lysergic.

Let’s step back in time, shall we? The year was 1992, and the music world seemed primed to explode.

Well, maybe it was just the drugs.

A day or so ago, I was watching a metal-themed countdown on VH1 Classic. The program was hosted by Skid Row‘s Sebastian Bach, whose continued enthusiasm for the genre never fails to amaze me. Apparently, Skid have moved on without him. Look for ’em at your local VFW hall!

Featured in the countdown was White Zombie‘s “Thunderkiss ’65.” Not feeling it? Drop more acid, pierce something, and give another listen.

It made me recall the days before the ’90s rockersbecame washed-out caricatures of themselves. Not that Rob Zombie wasn’talways a caricature. It’s just that he was cooler back then.

I’m happy to discover that WZ’s bass-slingin’, motor-fueled goth sweetheart Sean Yseult is still playing.

I promise I’ll get off the nostalgia trip soon. 

Maybe.

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Casey Rea was the Seven Days music editor from 2004 until 2007. He won the 2005 John D. Donoghue award for arts criticism from the Vermont Press Association.

9 replies on “Nostalgia Trip Part II: Early-onset Alzheimer’s.”

  1. sebastien bach is too bush rockin out on the Gilmore Girls these days.he doesnt have time for that skid row shit….

  3. I wondered what happened to her. You find lots of good shit Casey! I think I was named after her.

  4. Greg only watches the Gilmore Girls cause Sonic Youth is on it. That’s cool that Sean Yseult didn’t really have AIDS, despite all the rumours.ben h.

  5. When the special re-airs (and, since it’s VH-1, you KNOW that will happen a few times, probably this weekend in its entirety), note the following detail you specifically could appreciate…One of the featured commentators is Stevie Rachelle (now of Metal Sludge fame). It was bugging me for a bit where I’d seen him before, as the face looked way too familiar. Then it hit me: DECLINE 2! (Some might know it better as The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years.) And, lo and behond, he was the lead singer of Tuff (according to IMDB’s credits on TDoWC2), in all of his overhairsprayed bleached mane and pink lipstick glory. And don’t forget the boots.Now, why couldn’t they have rounded up that Wet Cherry guy? I wonder if he ever got his girl “the pretty furs, the nice cars, and the whole shebang?”

  6. I threw away a Tuff cassette in my last move. It wasn’t mine, I swear! Actually, I think Aaron Carpenter gave it to me as a joke. I just couldn’t bear to drag it along any further.The weird thing was, the tape was from, like, 1991. What the fuck was he doing with it in the first place?Do the cherries come pre-wetted, or do they have someone special for that?

  7. The job of “cherry-wetting” was no doubt the task of Cindy Burmisa, in hopes of getting on with her “actressing.”

  9. i dont watch gilmore girls anymore but i did for a season or two.and i dont like sonic youth.

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