The Strokes

StrokesQueen · 02-04-2002 6:14pm #1

Hello people!!
I'm a message board virgin, this is my first post, so be nice!!

Well just wanted to say that I was at the strokes gig on sunday nite and it was seriously one of the best i've ever been to.
What made really nice is that i got to meet 4 of them before and after the show, and they were really sweet. My fave is Albert, he is God!!

Having been up close to the band, here are my first impressions, in case anyone cares:

Nikolai=shy
Fab=adorable
Nick=gorgeous/scary
Julian=absent
Albert=GOD
Ryan Gentles(manager)=sweetheart

By the way, The guys showed up, played an amzing show and left the stage. How is that pretentious or up themselves??
Love the Strokes Queen
p.s. Albert and Fab were nice enough to come down again after the show, and were really polite and sweet. So were the support, Longwave.

lamda · 02-04-2002 9:34pm

Im so jealous!!!! I love Albert alright but goddammit i have an unhealthy obsession with Julian! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm:P

randy_courage · 02-04-2002 10:04pm

the strokes eh???
i would just like to say who gives a f_ck what they're like as people,i mean there album is ****ing super,and i defy anyone doesn't agree. The only reason they're lambasted by everyone is 'cause they're really hyped. Imagine if nobody knew about them but you,wouldn't you rave about them??? it's typical that just 'cos everyone knows who they are people will turn around and say they're ****. they are not ****. so there!!!!

Kurdt · 02-04-2002 10:34pm

but thats why jeebus gave us opinions of our very own...

oh jeebus, don't forsake them...

they know not what they do...

tony 2 tone · 03-04-2002 12:04am

Mutant boy band fans moving on..........
can you say SHEEP?,see I knew ya could...........

lamda · 03-04-2002 4:06pm

So if you like the strokes that makes you a sheep huh? Suggesting people only like them to follow the crowd.... come on credit us with a bit of intelligence please. Whatever happened to freedom of opinion eh? Oh and I was never a boy band fan.... i just happen to fancy the ass off julian casablancas but believe me if I didnt love the music i wouldnt be into them...sometimes though its nice to have some eye candy.;) There has been sh*t loads of hype but if they couldnt deliver the goods musically no amount of hype could make them as popular as they are. (by the way how cool are the new smilies...:ogre: :ninja: :rambo: hee hee)

snoop_dogg · 03-04-2002 4:43pm

Originally posted by lamda
There has been sh*t loads of hype but if they couldnt deliver the goods musically no amount of hype could make them as popular as they are.

please see boyzone, n'sync, backstreet boys, six, and all the other homo bands that are hyped to **** just cos they got money behind them.

StrokesQueen · 03-04-2002 5:21pm

You are so right there, why when a band that has received so much attention are actually good do people feel the need to b1tch anyway?? The Strokes never asked for any of the hysterical hype NME etc. gave them.
I also count myself a huge fan of David Bowie, REM and U2 so not much sex appeal there! Yes, the Strokes are nice to look at but at the end of the day it's their music fans love. In the 'Last Nite' video the guys went out of their way to look like scruffy scumbags, the fact that they still oozed sex is a pleasant bonus, alrite?? :lick: :cheeky:

GerK · 03-04-2002 5:25pm

Wait is it when bands get famous that they get sh!t or just when they are hyped?

Damn I hope Incubus don't get hyped/famous I'd hate to have to dislike them too!

Could you supply me with a list of "cool" and "SO Alternative" bands that we have the all clear to like Snoop?

Cheers!

Baaaaaa! Baaa! Baaaaaaa!
Bleet Bleet, Baaaaaaa etc. etc.

empathy · 03-04-2002 5:31pm

Originally posted by StrokesQueen
I also count myself a huge fan of David Bowie, REM and U2 so not much sex appeal there!

y'hello!!! you're trying to say that David Bowie doesn't have any sex appeal?.....oh god, what is the world coming to.
:surprised:

snoop_dogg · 03-04-2002 5:35pm

Originally posted by GerK
Wait is it when bands get famous that they get sh!t or just when they are hyped?

cos they are probably sucking dicks

Damn I hope Incubus don't get hyped/famous I'd hate to have to dislike them too!

who?

Could you supply me with a list of "cool" and "SO Alternative" bands that we have the all clear to like Snoop?

yo, give a list of bands that you like, and i'll tell you if they are wack or not.

Kurdt · 03-04-2002 6:31pm

why can't we all just get along????

why slate someone coz they like a popular band?? eh??
that sux!!!
fair enuf, they might be 'wack' in your opinion but since when did one persons opinion count for another persons??

i don't like the strokes/it doesn't mean i go and slate my friends that do.../they all love the strokes and they went to see them and loved it and i'm happy for them...

anyway you get the point....

oh, and btw, leave the sheepsses out of it... they just followin the leader...

biZrb · 03-04-2002 6:46pm

Well said Kurdt, my friends like The So Solid Creew and i cant stand them but, i dont go on about it because everyone has different likes and dislikes, so get over it!

StrokesQueen · 03-04-2002 6:49pm

Alrite I recant the part about David Bowie...he is a GOD but while i was writing that i was picturing Bono naked......not a very sexy prospect!

punk · 03-04-2002 7:00pm

Yea the Strokes were F u c king amazing !
I got a place in the pit,front row ,so I was only meters away when they played ! amazing!
If you want to see pics of the gig go to :
http://mcd.ie/photosmcd/thestrokes/thestrokes1.php3

also the 1st support act ,Longwave
were amazing,if you like The Strokes check 'em out ...

rapture_queen · 03-04-2002 7:02pm

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

I could be wrong but it seems to me that it is only guys?/ickle boys that are slating The Stokes!
I could be wrong so dont kill me...... but is there some form of jealous slagging going on?

Im not quite sure if i like The Strokes or not cause i havent heard the album but i do admit that some of them are quite cute.

so im not just liking them cause they are cute now am i?

and David Bowie does have a kind of sexual quality about him (and this is more strange) but esp. in the film Labyrinth!

snoop_dogg · 03-04-2002 7:03pm

Originally posted by punk
Yea the Strokes were F u c king amazing !
I got a place in the pit,front row ,so I was only meters away when they played ! amazing!
If you want to see pics of the gig go to :
http://mcd.ie/photosmcd/thestrokes/thestrokes1.php3

also the 1st support act ,Longwave
were amazing,if you like The Strokes check 'em out ...

yeah. the strokes are pretty ****in punk alright

punk · 03-04-2002 7:10pm

Originally posted by snoop_dogg

yeah. the strokes are pretty ****in punk alright

yea THE STROKES are really cool anyway to post yet another pic...

lamda · 03-04-2002 8:18pm

:laugh: :laugh:
IM sorry but i cant get over the fact that someone just said the word wack!! Oh dear lord......

StrokesQueen · 03-04-2002 9:12pm

God I SO agree!! That Labyrinth film scared the bejesus outta me when i was a kid but i love David Bowie in it!!
And yes, I think guys are jealous of the Strokes. I have never seen so many shirts, ties and Converse shoes in one audience than at the Strokes gig! Rock on!

lamda · 03-04-2002 10:09pm

Well if you ask me..guys adopting that look can only be a good thing!!!;)

atonal · 03-04-2002 10:18pm

it seems the strokes have somehow managed to gain posession of some sort of evil mind control device

StrokesQueen · 03-04-2002 10:20pm

I meant that in a good way of course.....and it wasn't just the guys either!!
:alien: :cheeky:

I love the Strokes!!

snoop_dogg · 03-04-2002 10:39pm

Originally posted by lamda
Well if you ask me..guys adopting that look can only be a good thing!!!;)

how about this. i'll wear a leather jacket. you call me julian. and we'll bang.

ok

clevenger · 03-04-2002 11:00pm

converse rock.

all star high tops in white

i got my chucks

Kurdt · 03-04-2002 11:47pm

Originally posted by snoop_dogg

how about this. i'll wear a leather jacket. you call me julian. and we'll bang.

ok

wow, you certainly have a way with the ladies...

a thought has occurred...

you are jealous of Julians good looks...you want to look like him...you want to look at him...YOU WANT HIM!!!!

AAAGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

Monkey · 04-04-2002 12:05am

so what if he hates the Strokes? Loads of people do (not me though)

And The Ramones looked like that before the Strokes were born.

StrokesQueen · 04-04-2002 1:59pm

Converse sneakers kick ass alrite? The Ramones proves it decades ago, now the Strokes are single-handedly saving the company!! Did anyone else hear that Converse is going bankrupt?? I've been having panic attacks daily about it!!:eek:

four_star · 04-04-2002 2:02pm

whats the story with the fight they got into with one of the record company executives?

Richie · 04-04-2002 2:48pm

It wasn't a record company exec. Apparently, the band were on the beer in Paris, as ya do. Julian had an interview with some TV channel, so one of his "aides" went over, asked him to leave the pub, and go along and do the interview. Julian, being the nice young chap that he is, did exactly that, assuming that the interview was with some big flash TV channel. However, when he found out that it was with some crappy half-ass cable TV channel, he lost the rag and head-butted his "aide". They then kissed, made-up, whatever.
I read the above in the Sun, therefore it is most possible bullsh*t!!

four_star · 04-04-2002 2:50pm

cheers for clearing it up

punk · 04-04-2002 5:20pm

oooo strokes live pic.!

StrokesQueen · 04-04-2002 6:14pm

I read in that pillar of sophisticated music journalism:P ,NME, that Julian had a row with a record company exec cos he didnt want to make a TV appearance. They made up apparently and the band didnt make the appearance...course it could all be Hear'Say or a load of old sh1t...wait thats the same thing :cheeky:

punk · 04-04-2002 6:19pm

Originally posted by StrokesQueen
I read in that pillar of sophisticated music journalism:P ,NME, that Julian had a row with a record company exec cos he didnt want to make a TV appearance. They made up apparently and the band didnt make the appearance...course it could all be Hear'Say or a load of old sh1t...wait thats the same thing :cheeky:

it was in the Sun aswell (according to other people,I do NOT read that rag)anyway I'm goin' to check http://www.nme.com .....

Looks like only the start of the Liam Gallagher-esk antics......

punk · 04-04-2002 6:27pm

LAST FIGHT ?

THE STROKES got into a fight with one of their record company senior executives and then pulled out of a planned television promo performance in PARIS recently, NME.COM can reveal.

The pressure of being on the road almost constantly for a year told on the band just over a fortnight ago when frontman Julian Casablancas cracked and punched John Voigtmann, senior director of International marketing at parent label RCA.

The band had been lined up to appear on a television show in Paris on March 19 when the bust-up happened.

"Julian hit him," guitarist Albert Hammond Jnr told NME last week. "He wouldn't normally, he's the last guy who would. But they were making us do this thing and we hadn't been told [about it]. They lied to us and we really didn't want to do it.

"So this guy is saying you got to do this show and we're saying no and our manager wasn't there at the time and it got a little weird. He didn't hit him hard, though."

The Strokes did not make the appearance.

The Strokes rounded off the UK and Ireland leg of their current tour at Dublin Olympia at the weekend (March 31). Rumours of road fever and in-band bickering had started to swirl around the band, but these were nonsense according to Albert.

"How do these rumours start?" he asked. "There is no rift. We've been on the road for over a year and we're a little tired, but we're still all friends."

The Strokes are due to take up six months off now to recharge their batteries and write and record their anticipated second album, though there is still talk of festival appearances in the summer.

Don't mess with him... Pic:A.Willsher

http://www.nme.com/news/101271.htm

Steele_Manheim · 04-04-2002 8:36pm

Originally posted by punk
LAST FIGHT ?

THE STROKES got into a fight with one of their record company senior executives and then pulled out of a planned television promo performance in PARIS recently, NME.COM can reveal.
......
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http://www.nme.com/news/101271.htm

you are retarded

DerekD Goldfish · 08-04-2002 1:17pm

I bought the album before I saw them so image didnt have an effect. So in order to be an alternative band the members have to look like neerds.

thedrowner · 08-04-2002 3:37pm

Originally posted by snoop_dogg

please see boyzone, n'sync, backstreet boys, six, and all the other homo bands that are hyped to **** just cos they got money behind them.

just becuase you dont like the type of music they represent does'nt mean they have no talent, they wouldn't be doing as well as they are now if that statement was true

tibor · 08-04-2002 5:44pm

damn straight. nsync rock!

:}

StrokesQueen · 08-04-2002 8:31pm

Hey c'mon now, I know everyone has a right to an opinion but I won't have my lovely Strokes thread turned into an *NSync appreciation society!

Peace

The Evil Monkey · 08-04-2002 8:33pm

but its *NSync !! how can we not show our appreciation??

snoop_dogg · 08-04-2002 10:06pm

Originally posted by thedrowner

just becuase you dont like the type of music they represent does'nt mean they have no talent, they wouldn't be doing as well as they are now if that statement was true

dude, i'm pretty sure there is some talent involved. mostly in those people that write and produce their songs.

but how much work, apart from dancing, and looking pretty do you think the members of these bands make.

the fact that they are popular has very little to do with the fact that they are talented.

talent, in these days is seen as somewhat excess baggage. if the money is there, there is no need for it.

please note, that i did not criticise N'Sync's music.

Kurdt · 08-04-2002 10:07pm

*Nsync...hmmmm...

i think we have a few closet fans...

i mean you're even putting the * in....

rock on *Nsync rock on

Kurdt:knockedout:

Kurdt · 08-04-2002 10:09pm

Originally posted by snoop_dogg

dude, i'm pretty sure there is some talent involved. mostly in those people that write and produce their songs.

but how much work, apart from dancing, and looking pretty do you think the members of these bands make.

the fact that they are popular has very little to do with the fact that they are talented.

talent, in these days is seen as somewhat excess baggage. if the money is there, there is no need for it.

please note, that i did not criticise N'Sync's music.

WOW... a sense of maturity from ya snoop...

you surprise us all....

Kurdt:knockedout:

snoop_dogg · 09-04-2002 10:10am

Originally posted by Kurdt

WOW... a sense of maturity from ya snoop...

you surprise us all....

Kurdt:knockedout:

eat a dick

Kurdt · 09-04-2002 10:22am

ahh, theres the snoop we've all grown to love...

also...

i don't know many richards...hmmm...

richard branson...he's too rich to eat...

any richards around?

Kurdt:knockedout:

Richie · 09-04-2002 1:04pm

ME ME ME. But I'd prefer not to be eaten, thank you very much.

thedrowner · 09-04-2002 8:30pm

snoop
you dont just get accepted into a "boyband" or "girlband" if you dont fit the requirements and just because you dont like that type of singing and the dancing that comes with it doesnt mean its any less valuable to, or worse for others. The people in bands like westlife and nsync and all of that music are good at singing, good at dancing if required. so what if there are people behind them doing some of the work like playing instruments and writing the songs? Its not like the industry covers it up to make us think otherwise, we know the facts. And vocals are just as good an instrument/talent as guiatr or drums and dancing is just as good for entertainment. i dont like them either but i dont think im superior to people who do like them just because its not my taste. Nor do i go around slagging them for what they do.

believe me, the industry doesn't put the money in if they dont think the band has the talent, and the reason most rock/alternative bands (particularly newer ones) dont get as much financial support from the industry is because the industry dont think they will go as far as bands like westlife and n sync. and i hate to say this, but theyre probably right, because pop bands currently appeal more to a greater amount of people, and if you want to make money from a band, from a business point of view, youre gonna pick the band that will make you the most money, the ones that will appeal to the greater amount of people.

StrokesQueen · 11-04-2002 5:18pm

To bring this thread back to its orginal subjects,

No Strokes at Witnness???!!!

Can anyone tell me whats the story with this?
Oh Well I guess we'll find out tonight at the launch......sigh

punk · 11-04-2002 5:24pm

Originally posted by StrokesQueen
To bring this thread back to its orginal subjects,

No Strokes at Witnness???!!!

Can anyone tell me whats the story with this?
Oh Well I guess we'll find out tonight at the launch......sigh

eh,
they already played Ireland (and I saw 'em!)
and they're having a 6 month break from touring at the moment during which they'll be recording & writing their new album and taking a well deserved break !

StrokesQueen · 11-04-2002 7:46pm

But...But.....But....

They're playing a few of the U.K. Festivals and Albert said that they're coming to one in Ireland.....We all assumed it was Witnness but maybe not.

The Strokes

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