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I once watched Darren unbend a paper clip in history and use its length to pick his nose. “Hear me roar.” Maybe I was warming up for the inevitable full-disclosure. This creates a strong link with the LGBTQ+ community.
The band’s music has helped gay people accept themselves and learn more about themselves in a big way. We’re in rehearsals right now for the tour, trying to put the set list together, and it’s the first time we feel we could and should just go out and play the whole album.
Everything from this period seemed webbed with zippers. He was the one who continued to stripe his bare chest with bondage straps after other members went to flak jackets. I cut more straps from an older, smaller backpack and stapled them together to create two long straps. The TV screen was small, my image dim and incomplete. They met for the first time in the middle of 1990 at a spa in Arizona.
His became a sort of proto-Marilyn Manson, goth style through the ’80s and ’90s, minus the thick pancake makeup and Absinthe in skull goblets. The name of GNR’s first and best album, Appetite for Destruction, so precisely sums up rock culture’s macho value system it could have been titled Appetite for Self-Destruction.
The idea that these guys are supposedly “real men” is laughable to me now.
It’s only new to me.
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Martin Gore looks back with no regrets, and Depeche Mode’s new disc sounds anything but “Wrong."
By Brandon Voss
With nearly 30 years in the limelight and more than 100 million albums sold worldwide, Depeche Mode could easily sit back and enjoy the silence.
Secretly. Check out old interviews. Eddie Van Halen churned out blazing guitar solos shirtless and scored a hot actress wife. Band members Martin, Dave, Alan, and Andrew were slight, articulate, British men. The latter song only fed rumors that the band was gay by featuring a cracking whip sound as part of the beat.
Depeche Mode played these songs on Casio keyboards, not Gibson Flying-Vs, and used a drum track, not a live, stick-wielding drummer.
As if to legitimize such recklessness, their 1989 song “Kickstart My Heart” — inspired by the two adrenalin shots that revived bassist Nikki Sixx after his near-fatal heroin overdose — was nominated for a Grammy.
And Guns ’N Roses’ lead guitarist Slash bears all the habits and accou¬trements of what has to come to embody the so-called true rock and roller: leather pants, long hair, dark sunglasses, soloing on stage with a lit cigarette in his mouth.
We generally use an artist that we genuinely like, an artist whose work we think is challenging, and we’ve always managed to catch people who are just about to break. If so, please mail copies.”
Aside from the offensive phrasing, Cody’s contention mirrored most nay¬sayers’ suspicions: the issue wasn’t Dave, Alan, or Andrew so much as Martin.
The line between fandom and affection, admiration and attraction, blurs too much for such clean, easy sum¬maries. There, in the front row of a U-shaped seating arrangement, he studied the contraption and the excavated junk on its tip, proud of his ingenuity. Disguise was a cultural halfway house: first you hide the shirt under another shirt; next you unbutton the other shirt to reveal the undershirt; soon you’re wearing just the shirt, no protection, and defending your tastes like an adult — like a man — when people comment on them.