Chub Rock
Why isn’t there a well-defined genre of music called “Fat Guy Rock”? I’ve got it in my head. Obvious candidates include Tad, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Meatloaf and Screaming Trees. You could throw in the Minutemen and Hüsker Dü since D. Boone and Bob Mould were both big boys during their heyday.
Current fat guy-fronted acts include Fucked Up and Les Savy Fav, both of whom put on absolutely incendiary live shows (both were at this year’s Funfunfunfest and tore shit up, y’all). Is there a deeper honesty or a more authentic emotion that comes with heavyset rocking? Or is there a certain delicacy and restraint that results from the persistent fear of imminent stage collapse?
I don’t know, but I’m going to have to work on a fat guy mix. Now.
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