Grunt Rock by ‘Tomorrow is not a Promise’
Some years back, when rap first got popular, I predicted that if we could have “music” with no tune, we’d soon have “songs” with no words.
Ooh uh uh. Geh grr ug ug!
I called my hypothetical wordless songs “grunt rock.”
And there I was, at C.O.R.E. in Bradenton, Fleriduh, one afternoon, when six young men who called themselves ‘Tomorrow is not a Promise’ got up on the little stage and started loudly pumping out… grunt rock!
Adults either shook their heads or left, but a small corps of teenage girls sat there, enthralled.
Wow. These guys were totally accomplishing the two mission of any high-quality disaffected-teener band: repelling adults and attracting girls.
Ooh ugh Wah Fuh! Boo huh rah mah?
This is great…. no need to waste time and brain cells learning lyrics. Just get up there and grunt!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:30 am
Tomorrow is not a promise, is an amazing band. I love all there band members and believe if they stick with it they can go far someday.
October 6th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I must say, thank you for the incredible insult. I’m Randy, the Drummer, and I must absolutely disagree, we do not get on stage and just “grunt”. We have very elaborate, artistic lyrics, just go to Myspace.com/tinapfl and see for yourself. And our purpose is to succeed musically enough so that we can leave this tiny, full-of-nothing town; not to attract girls and repel adults. We’ve gotten much better since this show. why don’t you try going up on stage after working in the heat, being dehydrated, and playing an instrument when the humidity caused by the rain has caused the temperature to go up by about 20 degrees’ all while having your limbs covered in dirt and mud.
December 31st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
now this is a new concept music without words, it more fun though listening to The Killers.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:38 am
yeahhhh these guys lyrics are so deep they have a 2 part song about the devils bitching machine thats easily one of the most elaborate artistic lyrics ive ever had the pleasure of hearing hahahaha
February 19th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
hahaha how about instead of insulting us on the internet, you use your abilities to go out and start your own musical revolution if you’re displeased with what’s being played in the local scene?
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
hahaha how about you kids learn the difference between a compliment and an insult?
If you attracted 55-year-old fans (me) and scared off young girls, you would be a failure. But it’s the other way around, so you’re a success.
What you haven’t figured out is that I was totally pleased (and yes, amused) to see a local group, here in frowzy little Bradenton, doing the “grunt rock” shtick I’d predicted back when you guys were just starting middle school.
As for me starting a musical revolution… I dropped acid and hung around in the Haight in the late 60s, wrote poems and lyrics I thought were great at the time (but weren’t that good when I looked at them a few years later), had hot little girls all over me, all that good stuff. So I did mine. It’s your turn now.
The “revolution” I’m working on these days isn’t music, but ultra-rapid, fast-paced video production and better-quality Internet video delivery. If/when you want to do a truly crazed music video, and have the right track laid down to base it on, talk to me.
- Robin