16 Forever

My favorite band of the moment is Tokio Hotel! If you don't know them they are basically a punk rock band from Germany, when they started the four members were ranging from 12 to 14. Bill is the lead singer and his Identical twin brother Tom plays guitar, Georg is the bassist and Gustav plays the drums. They originally only sang in German as that was the only language they new, but now they have albums in English as well. 

Aside from there music they are also know for Bills Kaulitz' hair and overall style. I think a lot of people were drawn to the band because of how cute they where when they where young and how good looking the Kaulitz twins where when they where teens. Bill always had a very cool look about him, some people think he looks very androgynous or pretty, but he had a very punk rock style. Tom was very influenced by German Hip Hop and you can tell by the way he dressed.

 Now they are 23 and they haven't totally changed styles but Bill has definitely altered his a little.
He has probably had 10 different hair styles since he was 15, first the short spiky hair, long spiky hair, dreadlocks, corn rows, a mohawk kind of thing, but his hair has always been black, he always used to wear punk rock clothes, he had a few tattoos and an eyebrow and a tongue piercing and he wore eyeliner, now he took the make-up off, has short blond hair, lots of tattoos and facial piercings, and he is really into fashion.
(before)
(2012)

    Its almost hard to recognize him now, and I wish sooo much he would change his style back, I absolutely loved him with his hair in the first picture. I thought he was sooo cool looking and cute and I really wish he still looked like that. I still love their music and the band but I don't really like how bill looks anymore. What do you think? I now that he likes how he looks now and every ones style changes a bit when they grow up, but I feel like its not even him anymore. Is it wrong to want him to change back even though he is happier now? I wish he could have stayed cute and 16 forever!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

   The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is once again doing their induction ceremony. This year they are inducting Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, Donovan, Laura Nyro, Small Faces, and Guns n' Roses without Axle Rose. It's not that they didn't want to induct him, just that he didn't want to be inducted. Apparently he thinks it would just be too awkward to go to the ceremony with the rest of his old band.

   I think that a lot of the people in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame should be there but I think there are also a lot of people who aren't in the hall but should be. To name a few, KISS, Bon Jovi, Rush, Deep Purple, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Def Leppard. They are all really good bands and some of them have been eligible for years but haven't even been nominated. I really think these bands should be in the hall especially when you consider that bands like ABBA made it in. I like ABBA and think they are a great band but can you really consider them rock n' roll? I don't think anyone can honestly say that ABBA made more of a contribution to rock than bands such as KISS and Def Leppard. So I was wondering what you thought about the rock n' roll hall of fame? Who should be in it? Who shouldn't?  I don't want to say that everyone in there shouldn't be. There are definitely some really great bands that made it in, but I think if they are going to have rock in their name they should be inducting the actual rock bands, not other genres.

KISS, Should new members get new make-up?

  KISS is in my opinion the best rock band ever! I wasn't around when they started but I really liked the band with all the original members, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehely and Peter Criss. KISS are still my favorite band and I like Tommy and Eric but sometimes I wish they still had the original lineup. I also really liked Eric Carr R.I.P..  What was your favorite line up? 
  One of the things I really liked about the original group was that they all seemed more or less equal members. In interviews they all got to talk, now it seems like Paul and Gene talk at least twice as much as the other two.
  I know a lot of people with different opinions on weather or not Tommy and Eric should be wearing Ace and Peters make up, what do you think? Should they have their own costumes like Eric and Vinnie did? I feel like by using the original members make-up they are trying to pretend like it's the same band it was in the 70s. I also think that since the whole point of having the make-up was to show who they where Tommy and Eric should get to have their own. Paul Stanley has the Starchild persona because he always wanted to be a star, and he wanted to be romantic. Gene Simmons is the Demon because he loves monster movies and comic books. Ace Frehely was spaced out so he became Space Ace and Peter really identified with cats so he became Catman. I don't know for sure but I doubt that Eric ever wanted to be a cat or that Tommy is often spaced out the way Ace was. I think that they are not the same band as they where before the members changed so they shouldn't pretend like they are. What do you guys think?

Art

Here are some drawings and projects I did for my art and info tech classes this year. Sorry the last two ended up sideways, and I didnt just leave a huge black spot on the last one but I had to cover up my last name before I put it on here.

My Favorites

  I have a few posts on hear about my opinion on different things but I realised I never really had a post to tell you what songs and albums I love.  Maybe you dont really care, but if you do these are some of my favorites.
       Bands
- KISS
-Bon Jovi
-Alice Cooper
-Aerosmith

      Songs
-Love Gun
-Bad Medicine
-Livin on a Prayer
-Dream On
-Walk This Way
-Rock N Roll All Night
-Born to be my Baby
-I Stole Your Love
-Lay your Hands on Me
-Cherry Pie
-Smokin in the Boys Room
-Feed My Frankenstien
-Cold Ethyl
-Rock of Ages
-Pour Some Sugar On Me
-Do You Love Me
-God of Thunder
-Talk to Me
-Heavens on Fire
-Shout It Out Loud

  Thats my four favorite bands and my top 20 songs. They arent all in order and I probably missed some of them, it's really hard to take all the songs I like and put them into a top 20, but I think this is it.
   Do you like any of them? Do you think I missed any really great songs? If you don't know any of them you should definantley look them up, and I would like to hear your top songs too, if you want to post them.

KISS and Motley Crue!!!

A little update from yesterdays post. All the concert information is the same, but they are doing one show in Auburn, which is only 15 minutes away from seattle. My dad and his friend and I have tickets to go! We wont be right at the front but we will definantley be close, we are at the front of the seats almost as close as you can get with out acctually being on the floor. I have only been to two other concerts but I am more excited for this one than I probably was for the other two together! The only problem is that the concert isnt until august. But I am soooooo excited, KISS is my favorite band ever and Motley Crue is also pretty amazing!

Motley Crue -kickstart my heart

KISS -Shout it out loud

New Concerts!!!

  Two weeks ago KISS anounced a huge summer tour with Motley Crue! It is called "THE TOUR" they will each get 90 minutes and Motley Crue will play first. Unfortunatley this is just a U.S. tour and so far thay don't have any shows near Vancouver so I wont be going to this one, but if they add any show in Seattle I will definantly be there! After this tour KISS will probably continue on with a tour in Canada and Europe, to promote their new Album MONSTER, which will be out sometime this summer!

    Aerosmith also anounced a U.S. summer tour. Theirs will be called "Global Warming" because Steven Tyler says "We will be lighting a fire under Americas ass, its gonna be so hot its gonna be like global warming." Also they get to say "Global Warming hits your city this summer!"
However they are not going to be in Canada this summer either because they can only do concerts when Steven isn't on American Idol. So they will come to Canada next summer, and I can't wait!