The rock'n'roll persona

Now, time for the rock'n'roll persona, compared to the indie persona description previously on this blog.

The rock'n'roll person is totally gung ho, all the way, f**k you all over the place. Take someone like Angus Young for instance, who will be running all over the stage, sweaty, with eyes staring crazily. Sometimes he'll be lying on the floor, playing his guitar, while his legs are running, pushing him around in a circle.

Or take someone like Axl Rose, typical heavy metal front man, who also will do a lot of running, jumping, and posing with one foot up on the speakers. Waving arms, looking quite mental, actually. (In an entertaining way).

Now who is more entertaining? The indie persona, who is very restrained, won't break into a sweat, and keep the hairdo in place throughout the concert? Or the rock'n'roll persona, who would break a few bones in his/her body to put up a good show.

Well, it's probably very much a class matter, if the audience is middle class, with intellectual aspirations, the answer is the well behaved Indie. If the audience is more towards working class, they will prefer the artist with sweaty hair and staring eyes screaming his/her lungs out.

But it's ok to be middle class and still like a good rock'n'roll band too. As long as your indie buds don't catch you doing the sign of the devil.

There are luckily some bands that will be ok for indie kids, but still are very rock'n'roll, but probably won't attract too many Iron Maiden fans. One of those bands that cross over are The White Stripes.