Poi and stuff - Can it be a rockers passtime ?

Hope no-one minds me making a new topic - couldn't find anything that instantly filled the niche of what I'm about to ask ....

In my LJ I've posted that I've been touch with my old mate and that I've started spinning Poi. In some posts for the last week I've mentioned I'm gonna practice and general stuff like that.

A friend on LJ who hasn't really had much love for me lately has now posted a reply which has made me think;

Their comment being, basically;

"Poi is for people who go to dance clubs not fuvking rovk clubs jason, make yourself more annying why dont u?"

Now, like I say, due to my personal life and peoples views on stuff I'm not particularly liked by this person at the moment.

Now, I've been to my fair share of dance clubs. In fact, I have about 5/6 years on top of this person (Been clubbing, mostly Rock, for 13 years now). although, like I say, it's mostly rock/metal.

So - peoples views:

Can a 6'3", Pantera/Hatebreed/White Zombie loving rocker be accepted as a spinner ? I like my DnB, Dance, Rave, Jungle, Dance, Trance, Techno, Electro etc as much as most other clubbers though, music is my life.

Please, don't post anything about being narrow minded or owt, that's not what this is about, but just got me thinking.

Nowt wrong with rock music... i listen mostly to it myself.. plus its good to spin to and juggle.

1) What's LJ?
2) Definitely Although what I think you'll find is most rockers/mettlers here also have a soft spot for dance moosic of some form... There's very few rock/metal purists on these boards at any rate (that I know of), yet there does seem to be more dance purists...

For me, poi and the like actually got me more into dance music, I was much more of a "Dance music is generally shite" person before I started spinning and hearing good dance music

3) Hatebreed... How cheery

mmmhuh. there's loads of rockers.

1 - LJ - Livejournal. Just a blog site.

2 - I've always had a liking for any music, except Country and Western (but the exception that prooves the rule is Garth Brooks). Always have, just that I have long hair, facial hair and piercings. Guess that means I rock to the core hunh ?

3 - Hatebreed - Aye, nice and stompy shoutyness !

Then again, I am now listening to some Ben Harper.

I got into poi from seeing people do it in Rock Clubs.

In my more erratic testosterone-poi days it was fun to do it to stuff like Motorhead's 'Ace of Spades', Machinehead's 'The Blood The Sweat and Tears' and NIN's 'Sin'...

But I gradually learned to just chill-the-f**k out and relax. Spinning had generally drawn me out of listening to metal and made re-visit alot of the non-metal items in my CD collection as well as checking out new genres more extensively than I used to.

Now quite an avid listener of electro-funk, gypsy-beats hybrids, Spanish Flamenco (ha!) and others I can't even think of right now... I rarely listen to metal now at home or on my MP3 player but I still now and again visit the rockclubs and just unleash the beast within...

Now I need to re-learn the Macarena...

dude, I think you rock! I read some of your posts in the PLAY thread and you got a great attitude!!
poistaffjuggling etc isn't confined to any sort of music! That's the joy of it, you can spin to mozart or hatebreed or even Britney if you want, and I know deep down we all want to listen to Britney because she write such deep lyrics.... getting off track now,

er... whatever, bounce to whatever floats your boat and inspires your spinning! I bet there are some moves that could evolve out of moshing actually.... oooh, choreo ideas hahahhehehhe, bye!

Lx

Groovy - Sounds like you have a varied music collection Neon !

Elasta - Britney. Mmmmm. Yeah, it's her lyrics I like her for.

Mosh moves. Hmmm ... probably, I do spin around a lot and move very energetically. Maybe I'll give it a go some time, once I've figured out what the smeg I'm doin' !

I discovered poi and dance music at the same party in 2003, so in my mind they've always been intimately linked. But before that I was (and still am) into rock and metal.

Roots Bloody Roots is a TOP song to spin to

\m/ ^_^ \m/

TOTALLY!

And I love Kamatachi from the against album. Good rockin' tribal wholeness.

Then again, I can't help but get worked up to Iron Maiden's number of the beast....

Though, spinning has gotten me into alot of industrial stuff as of late...

Punk Rock purist here (pretty much).

I can't stand much else on its own, with a few exceptions, but I find spinning to anything with rock/metal on the end near impossible to spin to.

Much nicer to spin to Manu Chow then to The Sex Pistols, innit?

I don't think Poi/staff whatever fills any particular niche... you just go for it son!

87wt2gxq7 you hypocrit! When I said I didn't like psytrance, you said "and you call yourself a spinner?"

EVIL, sure can. If it was impossible to be a spinner and rocker, then you'd be a fragment of my imagination (which of course you MIGHT be since the whole world might just be something that exists for my own pleasure). But let's assume you're real, you spin and listen to rock, so obviously it's possible

I prefer Ratamahata...

Rob Zombie's 'Superbeast' is a good one too...

Dude, have you ever tried spinning to Anaal Nathrakh? It's sooooo much fun. I like loads of metal from REAL heavy stuff (seen Napalm Death live about 12 times) to Power Metal, to stuff like Tool! My all time favourite for spinning is Chaos AD by Sepultura. And I converted a load of people who went to Wacken last year to the joys of Poi!

That said, I make dance music as well.

That'd be cool .... Chaos AD hunh ? Yeah, good solid beat I can see how that'd be cool.

Personally I can't wait to have a bit more practice and some more moves etc (Basically just drastically improve what I'm doing !) and then start spinning along to things like White Zombie's "Super Charger Heaven" or Dope's "Bitch".

Ooooo .... looking through my CDs now ... mwahahahahahahahah.

well i used ti be 6ft tall goth lol but like many people i got drawn away by poi because to me its so much nicer to spin to dance and drum and bass etc...

while i don't listen to quite as heavy stuff...
nonpoint is a fun spin and tool
if you can find the beat it doesn't matter what you spin to
in a mosh everything is flying around anyways, why not poi?

bottom line - whatever music you find gets you spinning is the music that's best for you. People have different tastes about what they like to spin to - there's no right or wrong and it all depends on your mood at the time. i myself listen to mostly rock, grunge, metal etc, but i find having a steady beat like with drum n bass to spin to helpful, but if i'm not in the mood to spin to that, then i wont.

to me it sounds like your friend is getting tied down by some narrow minded stereotyping.

well i'm pretty sure the original maori poi spinners weren't listening to dance music, so it's kind of odd there's even that stereotype at all... of course you can like whatever music you like AND spin poi, they are seperate things, whether or not you choose to combine them and how is up to you.

It's like saying all athletes listen to chariots of fire whilst training... or even all dancers have to do ballet to tchaicovsky... and most people would probably say those ideas were stoopid... :P