guttersnipe
10-04-2003, 03:47 PM
I have the coolest kids in the universe.
I took them to see School of Rock today. It wasn't great, but the kids loved it. The best part was when Jack Black was showing a kid how to play the opening to Iron Man, my 4 year old daughter yelled "Iron Man!" and cracked the whole theatre up. We haven't even listened to that song in at least three months, but she recognized it right away because it has always been one of her faves.
After the movie, the kids started talking about how WE should start a "rockin' band." The girl wants to play electric guitar, the boy will be on drums (so he can beat the hell out of them instead of tearing everything else in the house apart), and I'll take bass since I used to play that.
But this will be no Partridge Family.
At the pizza joint after the movie, we started planning. First, what were we going to call the band? My daughter said, "It has to have 'death' in it. How about The Death Rockers?" This girl has never heard the term Death Metal (though she has heard some Slayer, does that count?). She just came up with that on her own. I quibbled a bit about having a band called The Death Rockers with kids who are 4 and 6. But they won me over.
Then my son decides he's going to be the lead singer. I really argue over this because *I* want to be the singer. But then, just sitting there at the table, he starts singing, making up the lyrics as he goes along, totally improvisational. I scribbled down what he sang on a napkin. Check this out:
"Death, death
What do you think
The Death Rockers, yeah!
Here we go
To help people blow their minds
Ho whoa whoa
We're gonna do the evil thing
And we hope you go to hell
We're gonna be bad today
Death Rockers, yeah!"
This kid is SIX, and I swear to god, that's what he sang, word for word. And no, I've never told him to go to hell, so I don't know where the hell he got that from! I couldn't argue with genius, so I relented. He's the lead singer.
Back in the car on the way home, we ran into some creative differences over who was on whose side of the back seat, and sadly, the band broke up. They decided to pursue solo careers though, so all is not lost. Of course, I'm out in the cold. But it was fun while it lasted!
~guttersnipe
former bass player of The Death Rockers
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I took them to see School of Rock today. It wasn't great, but the kids loved it. The best part was when Jack Black was showing a kid how to play the opening to Iron Man, my 4 year old daughter yelled "Iron Man!" and cracked the whole theatre up. We haven't even listened to that song in at least three months, but she recognized it right away because it has always been one of her faves.
After the movie, the kids started talking about how WE should start a "rockin' band." The girl wants to play electric guitar, the boy will be on drums (so he can beat the hell out of them instead of tearing everything else in the house apart), and I'll take bass since I used to play that.
But this will be no Partridge Family.
At the pizza joint after the movie, we started planning. First, what were we going to call the band? My daughter said, "It has to have 'death' in it. How about The Death Rockers?" This girl has never heard the term Death Metal (though she has heard some Slayer, does that count?). She just came up with that on her own. I quibbled a bit about having a band called The Death Rockers with kids who are 4 and 6. But they won me over.
Then my son decides he's going to be the lead singer. I really argue over this because *I* want to be the singer. But then, just sitting there at the table, he starts singing, making up the lyrics as he goes along, totally improvisational. I scribbled down what he sang on a napkin. Check this out:
"Death, death
What do you think
The Death Rockers, yeah!
Here we go
To help people blow their minds
Ho whoa whoa
We're gonna do the evil thing
And we hope you go to hell
We're gonna be bad today
Death Rockers, yeah!"
This kid is SIX, and I swear to god, that's what he sang, word for word. And no, I've never told him to go to hell, so I don't know where the hell he got that from! I couldn't argue with genius, so I relented. He's the lead singer.
Back in the car on the way home, we ran into some creative differences over who was on whose side of the back seat, and sadly, the band broke up. They decided to pursue solo careers though, so all is not lost. Of course, I'm out in the cold. But it was fun while it lasted!
~guttersnipe
former bass player of The Death Rockers
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