Spotted this one on NME.com, its nice to see some ambitious musicians but maybe they have their sights set a little too high... let us a know what you think ? Leave us a comment!
Killers: 'We want to knock Led Zeppelin and Nirvana off their pedestals'
Brandon Flowers reveals band's US ambitions
* Apr 30, 2009
The Killers have thrown down the gauntlet to American music fans, declaring they will knock Led Zeppelin and Nirvana "off their pedestals".
The Las Vegas band are currently in the middle of a north American tour, and frontman Brandon Flowers has told NME.COM he will use the dates to help repeat the success the band have already enjoyed in Britain. But first, they'll have to overcome the US public's listening prejudices.
"We’ve been embraced in Britain in a way that I’ll never understand, and it’s such a wonderful thing," he declared. "But over here [in America], people are still so obsessed with Led Zeppelin and Nirvana, those sorts of bands, that nobody else is allowed [to grow]."
He added: "It’s not just us; there are a lot of great bands that have been held down or confined by the influence of these people that we’ve put up on pedestals. I’m tired of it, you know? I just want to knock them all off! And people don’t like that attitude. It’s almost like they don’t believe that it’s possible that anybody else can be the real deal.
"It doesn’t matter how many great songs we write or how many great shows we play. But we’re slowly chipping away at it. With this last album ['Day And Age'], there’s been a noticeable shift but we’re still nowhere near where we are in Europe."
So too big for their boots or destined for bigger things to come?..... We'll let you decide.
VB
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To some extent i do concur with Flowers. All of these mega musicians of the past are held in such a high regard that it seems todays musicians will always be playing 'catch up' and be compared to our past super-stars in terms of the influence that they have on them instead of being fully decorated in their own right.
But we have to look at the reason for this. The Beatles for the way they took the whole world by storm, Led Zepplin for their influence on heavy metal, The Ramones for their influence on punk, Nirvana bucking the trend for alternative music in an increasingly commercialised world. You can look back on the work of all these guys and see that in their own way they shaped music history.
Can anyone really say that The Killers have shaped music history? I guess only time will tell, but after two decent albums and one mediocre I'm gonna have to say it's a pretty resounding 'no' at this stage...
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May 9, 2009 at 11:22 PM