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Showing posts with label Max Cavalera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Max Cavalera. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2011

Licey Dreds

Skinny bad ass Max/ Fat washed up hack Max
What the hell happened to Max Cavalera? Seriously? Granted that he has been doing making and preforming music for going on 30 years and in that time span people change a lot, but seriously what happened to this dude? I mean he's only 42 but in the last decade he looks like he has aged 20 years and ate maybe 2 people, while also starting to look and presumably starting to smell like a hobo.
For reals, he's let himself go in virtually every way. Gained about 1,000 lbs, lost a few teeth, and his hair, holy shit. I know that he's got some dreds, but man I wouldn't be surprised if he's got a few colonies of lice living in his hair. The changes in him though go much deeper than that.
Now lets look at his music. How could someone go from writing something like Arise or Chaos A.D. something that has some sophistication and depth to it, to writing terrible drop A riffs that take the skill of someone who has played guitar for about a week. It also goes beyond just writing. Live his playing has taken more than a few turns for the awful. The guy is such a liability it's not even funny. He can barely play his own songs anymore. I mean I watched a clip on Youtube of Cavalera Conspiracy playing some old Sepultura tunes, and he more or less just his arbitrary notes. Then there are his vocals. Granted his style of singing is more in the "I swallowed a bucket of gravel" vein, but he was great at it. Then just as his guitar playing started to go down, so did his vocals. He just stands there looking dazed and bloated, while just mumbling incoherent words. What. The. Funkinwaggles?
I guess what I'm wondering, is how can one person start to suck so hard at their job in all aspects? It's kinda sad to me really, because he used to be so great at what he does and now it seems like he's a bloated, greasy, lice infested version of himself.