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Spoiler / Fu Manchu - The Need For Practice

Fu Manchu shows Spoiler that it doesn't matter if your songs are any good as long as you know how to groove.
16 april 2002, Patronaat, Haarlem (NL)

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 26 april 2002

If beforehand I would have had to make a prediction about which band would fare better in the well-filled Patronaat, I would've said Spoiler. That band has just released an album filled with a refreshing mix of stoner and melodic hard rock, whereas Fu Manchu keeps recycling the same stoner rock clichés and has a singer who knows only one melody. In reality it turned out to be completely different.
Spoiler suffered from sloppy timing. I know there are loads of indie rock bands that thrive on their "charming" sloppiness, but for stoner rock it is the ultimate sin: Groove is the essence of the genre. Add an abysmal podium presentation to the list of Spoiler's sins (if you are going for a hard rock poser style, you gotta go all the way; otherwise you'll end up looking like a bunch of jerks pretending to be rock stars!), and you've got a pretty pathetic end result.
Fu Manchu doesn't have a podium presentation. They just come out and play their songs. Which are all the same. And consist entirely of genre clichés. And are badly sung. And groove like a motherfuckin' herd of white elephants on LSD. Fu Manchu gave Spoiler a musical lecture on the need for practice. And the audience on the need for variation. But I still would rather have well-prepared fast-food than a completely failed attempt at gastronomy.

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