Korn Guitarist Leaves Band
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"Korn has parted ways with guitarist Brian `Head' Welch, who has chosen Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end," said a statement posted Tuesday on Korn's Web site.
The fact that the guitarist left the band for religious purposes is not all that unusual. Peter Green left Fleetwood Mac, Cat Stevens and Al Stewart stopped their secular performances in their prime.
What is enlightening is Welch's statement. "Those guys in the band, they're not bad guys. They're just a bunch of kids getting marketed how these guys in the big corporate firms want to do. It makes us look like bad people, but we're really just a bunch of kids who never had a chance to grow up."
The fact is that creativity is not in the hand of the artists in today's music. What we have is the musical equivalent of Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 video where the kids being taught in school were marched off into a meat grinder and came out looking the same, because they were shaped like Play-Do to think just alike.
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posted by Randy Black @ 2:50 PM
4 Comments:
Are you sure you meant "Al Stewart"? To my knowledge he's never stopped recording/performing. I saw him just last year, and I think he's got a new CD coming out this year.
Instead of Al you could add one of the guys from Bourgeois/Tagg (I forget which) who left after finding religion.
OK guy from Bougeois Tagg it is. I was going by someone else's statement when I mentioned Al. I liked Time Passages the most. I used to play Year of the Cat and Song on the Radio on the radio a lot.
Gee, I wonder if Al knows that the rumour on the internet is that he's found God. That could really cut into his wine drinking....unless he became a Catholic I suppose.
As for Al, a few years back he had an absolutely terrific album called Between The Wars. If you ever enjoyed some of his ore folky or historical songs you might want to check it out..if you can find a copy.
Actually the rumor was that he had found allah and may originate from too much being read from lyrics such as Constantinople. http://www.alstewart.com/lyrics/constantinople.htm
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