Slammin with Green Day and various artists
The reviewers...
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However, we’ll alert you to the biases of the reviewers first:
- R.J.: early 40s in the Netherlands (too many degrees). Music influences: early B-52s and Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Front Line Assembly, Curve. Not familiar with Green Day. Sculpture/installation, not 2-D work at all really.
- D.M.: early 20s in the UK, BA Fine Art, music store boyfriend, fan of early Green Day and went to one "massive gig—it was brilliant". Favorites include Bon Jovi, 30 Seconds to Mars, Rob Zombie, Black Stone Cherry and Marilyn Manson. Artist/photographer.
- L.A.: child of the late 60s/70s; classically trained; fully degreed but disenchanted with academia; ever more suspect of formalism; finding marvelous contrasts in the western American Land of Zion (Utah); loving Beatles, Stockhausen, Rage Against The Machine, and even the guilty pleasures of Warholian characters in pop culture.
- Plus we’ve added the comments of Delfina (on 20 October 2009) who runs a
Green Day fan site and has a fine art background.
Now at the risk of sounding like a couple of Beavises and Buttheads, we discuss nine works showing music+art 21st Century Breakdown, and choose our favorite. These are just our perspectives—please make up your own minds!
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