[新聞] Manson 就只是個搖滾明星？

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Trooper 的主唱 Ra McGuire 接受訪談時說道，他相信，只要你內心確實有個目標，你就有達到那個目標的潛力。然後他說他們是真的喜歡音樂，不是只想做搖滾明星。「我肯定 Marilyn Manson 想做搖滾明星。我肯定他要的就只是那個，而的確，他得到的也就只是那個。就是有些人只是搖滾明星，毫無藝術內容。」記者友善地（？）補上一句，「他的重點不是要嗆 Marilyn Manson，只是說如果一個人選擇搖滾明星這條路，那他真的有可能變成搖滾明星。」在下不能斷言「就是有些人」那句話是在嗆 Manson，但不禁想起，當 Manson 批評做音樂的人，他絕少指名道姓。 http://tinyurl.com/5hvln Edmonton Sun ENTERTAINMENT Fri, December 24, 2004 Real Troopers! MIKE ROSS, EDMONTON SUN They didn't name the band "Trooper" knowing they'd be rockin' the bars for 100 shows a year all these years later - but the word sure fits, give or take a "u." The dependable Canadian rock band is back again, playing the Globe next Thursday, a little warm-up for New Year's Eve. They will play all the hits in accordance with the Law of Classic Rock. They will play Raise a Little Hell, Boys in the Bright White Sports Car, 3 Dressed Up as a Nine, We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) and ... holy crap, these guys had some big songs. The Moist or Watchmen of its time, Trooper played the big rooms, got the big airplay, got the big money and then what happened? Nothing that doesn't happen to almost every classic rock artist in rock 'n' roll history: the fame fades, the record deals go awry, the new albums don't sell, the arenas give way to bars - and through all the trials, the songs grow larger and more rooted in the era they were recorded. It is impossible for a man of a certain age to hear Raise a Little Hell and not be transported instantly back to teenage hell-raising nostalgia. As interesting as the saga of the old show-biz trouper is the tale of the Ancient Rock 'n' Roll Mariner, neck weighed down with the musical albatrosses that have become far more famous than their creator. In a phone interview from his home in White Rock, B.C., Trooper singer Ra McGuire says he finds it "odd" people should continually focus on a relatively short period in the band's career - the four or five years in the late '70s that yielded the aforementioned hits - when there's more than 30 years of history to cover. Those hits, however, "have carried us through these years with an audience that stays connected to us, in one way or another. If they're what keeps that audience with us, we have to be very thankful for them." Little things like a punk-rock Trooper tribute album are proof of the legacy of a band underrated due to sheer familiarity. Trooper? Again? They've been here before. They'll be here again. Most of the punk bands that covered Trooper songs on that album will not. "Thirty songs, 30 bands," McGuire says proudly. "It's called Shot Spot. Hot Shots was our greatest hits album and a 'shot spot' means ... " OK, let's change the subject. On a personal level, McGuire says the most important job of his life is raising his son, now 17 years old and in a band of his own - a "joyous coincidence" the kid decided to follow in dad's footsteps. "He knows more about what's in store for him than most kids that are thinking they should start a rock band," McGuire says. "Lord knows, not all of it is good." But if you're in the game for the right reason, it's all good. Becoming a musician only because you want to become a rock star just sets you up for a life of misery, though McGuire begs to differ. "I honestly believe that if you set out with something firmly in mind, you have potential to achieve it. I'm sure Marilyn Manson wanted to be a rock star. I'm sure that's all he wanted and really, that's all he got. There are people who are only rock stars and have no artistic content whatsoever." His point is not to slag Marilyn Manson, but that if one chooses the rock star path, one may become a rock star. McGuire didn't set out to be a rock star. "I just love doing it," he says. "And that's got to be the best reason to do anything. I had no f----ing clue this was my vocation until I was making my third album or something. I was constantly surprised that it was working. Oh, look, we got gigs. Oh, look, we got a record deal. Oh, look, we sold some records." As for new Trooper music, will Trooper fans be subjected to the bane of "here's one from our new album" at the show? Not exactly. Trooper hasn't made an album since the '80s, McGuire says, not because they don't have new material but because unless there's interest in the new songs already, no one's going to be interested in an album. He says, "We're writing new songs all the time. Making an album is just a very complicated thing to do at this point. We just keep writing and playing. I always believe that if you do good work, something good will happen. That might sound naive, but I believe it on a whole bunch of levels. If you concentrate on doing the good work, the good results will come. In our case, most of our energy has gone to the live shows for a long time. And in fact there's been little else going on other than me raising a son." And should Trooper decide to retire - which doesn't sound like it's going to happen any time soon - the 54-year-old songwriter should be able to eke out a living from songwriter's royalties. That's another thing about the hit more famous than the hitmaker: They demand to be played every night, but they can generate giant piles of cash. McGuire laughs, "I still sit here in White Rock thinking that at any moment someone's going to cover Raise a Little Hell and I'm going to become a millionaire. It's absolutely possible. It would be more possible if I was out there hustling, which I'm not." 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