Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white, working-class neighborhood of Benson and on the streets of Omaha. "If you have a gun, you have power. That's just the way it is," he says. "Guns are just a part of growing up these days." Doug felt older already. With the radio blaring heavy metal, he smiled all the way home...
That evening, while his parents watched television, Doug sneaked into the garage and got his Dad's hacksaw. Carefully selecting a spot along the barrel, he began to cut. He was amazed at how easily the blade sliced through the metal. Smoothing the end with a metal file, he then cut the stock, reducing the gun by almost 2 ft. in length and transforming it into the weapon of choice among many teenage toughs: a pistol-grip, sawed-off shotgun, which he pronounces almost as one word. "Easy to hide and no need to aim. Just bam! and you clear...
...opening song on the album sounds more like it belongs with Nine Inch Nails. The music is loud, the metal is ringing and the singer's voice is growling out pessimistic views with a nefarious skill. Instead of putting one of the band members in front of a microphone, the band could have sawed the trunk of a talking tree and received the same quality. The band seems to know this, though, and says in the credits that a band member did the "griping," not the singing...
Lollapalooza began three years ago as the inspiration of singer Perry Farrell of the now defunct group Jane's Addiction; this year the tour visits more than 20 cities. Today Rage Against the Machine, a thrash metal band, performs first. Many of the 25,000 concertgoers surge to the front, churning up a cloud of dust that will hang in front of the stage all day like a dirty shower curtain. The lead singer is wailing "F you, I won't do what you tell me," again and again and later attacks the price of Lollapalooza souvenirs. "We like this...
...Sunglasses: Sunglasses don't actually change the temperature of the air around you, and metal frames can actually get pretty hot. But sunglasses will keep the rays out of your eyes, and they just may contribute to making you look cooler...