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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Tickets - Bringing Back Rock and Roll Rebellion

Black leather, roaring motorcycle engines and uncontrollable youths destroying small-town America have all become a kind of cliché after the release of 1953's The Wild One, a film that made Marlon Brando a star. "What are you rebelling against?" he was asked in one immortal scene. Then, with just the right disdain: "What have ya got?"

Whether Brando realized it or not at the time, the look and attitude of his character would go on to influence countless generations of rock fans, even inspiring one San Francisco-based group to name themselves after the movie: The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. The band formed in 1998, borrowing their name from Brando's motorcycle gang in the movie.

The band came together while two of its members, Robert Turner and Peter Hayes, were still in high school. They loved rock that was loud, noisy but also layered in fuzz, bonding over a shared appreciation for the Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine. By 1998, they decided to start playing gigs with drummer Nick Jago. Their unique sound—echoing vocals and fractious rock—immediately started generating a buzz for the trio, and in 2000 they finally signed to a label, releasing a self-titled debut that same year on Virgin.

Tracks like "Red Eyes and Tears," "Whatever Happened to my Rock and Roll," "Rifles" and "Spread Your Love" started gaining traction on radio stations, and in short stead, the band had built a decent following. The image on the cover of their first record depicted them hanging out at a street corner dressed in black and looking a little dejected and a bit bored. Call it the myth of rock and roll. Heck, call it whatever you want- it worked.

The band roared back in 2003 with a second helping of their garage rock entitled Take Them on Your Own. But they wanted to branch out and experiment. The sound and fury that announced them on the scene was cleared for a sparer, blues-inspired approach on 2005's Howl. It put off some fans, to be sure, who simply wanted more of the same. More open-minded listeners found a record that revealed a reinvented band, capable of harboring the same energy and anger that they had in their messy, dark rock and communicating it through more traditional American music.

But the band clearly was still in the throes of an identity crisis. In 2007, they returned to the scene with Baby 81, a record that went back to their noisier brand of rock, though many critics found that the attitude that seemed novel at the start of the decade was coming across hollow now. Perhaps it was the times, or perhaps the band simply undercooked the record.

Regardless, it doesn't much matter with the BRMC's newest album coming out. Beat the Devil's Tattoo is a return to form that's drawing rave reviews. If you want to see the band perform some of its songs live, get <a href="http://www.stubhub.com/black-rebel-motorcycle-club-tickets/">Black Rebel Motorcycle Club tickets</a> from StubHub.

 

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What are some good new rock/love songs to play at a wedding and reception?

Planning a wedding next year and we need some advice on some good love/rock songs that are sweet that we could play at our wedding and reception need help!!!
We like hardcore music, rock, metal... just need some good love songs in that genre

Thank You
by Led Zepplin
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.

Kind woman, I give you my all, Kind woman, nothing more.

Little drops of rain whisper of the pain, tears of loves lost in the days gone by.
My love is strong, with you there is no wrong,
together we shall go until we die. My, my, my.
An inspiration is what you are to me, inspiration, look... see.

And so today, my world it smiles, your hand in mine, we walk the miles,
Thanks to you it will be done, for you to me are the only one.
Happiness, no more be sad, happiness....I'm glad.
If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you.
When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.

Even better with the music. It's song #4 on album Led Zepplin III

Neil Diamond- Love On The Rocks