Originally Posted by: Homebrew1709 Nowadays, the gap between talent and image is getting smaller and smaller.

I dont agree with that because imagine is AS important as talent when your talking about heros! A hero is someone you admire and aspire to be, and that almost certainly entials image and looks.
If you take my heros.... slash and joe perry.... those guys were/are cool! Very cool infact! Compare them to the example of justin and dan hawkins... who by the way are far from heros, and youl see my point.
I think the 70s, 80s and early 90s where successful in gaining attension, simply because they advertised an exciting dangerous, yet glamorous world of drinking and drugging. There arent any genuinely dangerous/wreckless bands anymore... everythings tame now. Theres no fantasy in rock music right now... current rock bands dont provide me with an incite into anything I cant have or do myself. GnR would sing about hookers, getting stoned, stealing, fighting, a lifestyle that I wouldnt choose myself but as a teenager would love to hear about.
You just dont get that anymore :rolleyes:
One of the most pwerful pieces of rock history to me is Slash running on during the freddie mercury tribute show to play the guitar solo for 'Tie Your mother Down'. I dont think theres enough energy in rock music these days to make me feel how I feel when I see clips from the past like that! :(