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    Who's Your Goth-Daddy?

    Posted by Old Grey on 7/3/2008, 8:33 pm
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    Today I spent a lot of time -- maybe too much -- watching a Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci-Fi channel. Suddenly, a thought came to me.

    Here's Rod Serling, some-time writer and full-time host to one of TV's spookiest shows. Downright eerie, some of the tales could be considered . . . well, gothic in nature.

    But look again at Rod Serling. The man did not have a gothic bone in his body. Maybe a slight turn of gothic in his mind, but most of his stories were sci-fi, not gothic tales.

    Knowing nothing else of the man than his TV presence, I'd have to say he was far and away more Beat than goth.

    So, by extrapolation, I wonder if all, or indeed any, of the "gothic" masters -- Lovecraft, Stoker, Poe, Shelley -- I wonder if they considered themselves as having a "gothic" personality.

    So, the point of this post is down the this, my friends: of all the bands you know who perform gothic stuff, which are NOT considered -- either by themselves or by their followers -- to be gothic.

    Don't bother with Marilyn Manson. He's a joke on the scene. Talented, yes, but a joke nonetheless.

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