Sound Check Rawk Horns?
posted by on October 9 at 11:50 AM
Certain shows are not right for the rock horns or ‘rawk’ hand signal.
Here is someone at the Widespread Panic show in the Paramount throwing up devil horns. Come on, you’re seeing a jam band and you’re doing a hippie dance, devil horns don’t work:
And here is Brent Amaker & the Rodeo in Holland. A fan is up front breaking out a very sturdy, very well executed rawk signal. This guy gets a partial excuse because he’s probably excited by a band from Seattle in his hometown. And Seattle means rock. He’s also a bit too sexy for his shirt. But it’s country western music, guy. It’s not Metallica.
(Picture by Johnny Podhradsky.)
This hand signal stems from the ‘corna’, which is Italian for horns. Its origins can be traced to Ancient Greece. Anton LaVey, founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan, popularized it as a Satanic salute in the 1960s.
In Italy, the horns placed behind someone’s head, or pointed at a person means that this person is being cheated on by their spouse. In some places, the gesture wards off bad luck.
Occasionally it is confused with the “I Love You” sign, in which the thumb is extended.
Ronnie James Dio in Metal-Rules.com says:
It’s NOT the devil’s sign like we’re here with the devil. It’s an Italian thing I got from my Grandmother called the “Malocchio”. It’s to ward off the Evil Eye or to give the Evil Eye, depending on which way you do it. It’s just a symbol but it had magical incantations and attitudes to it and I felt it worked very well with Sabbath.
brilliant.
we always called the fist pump that goes along w this sign "throwing slayers" or "throwing goats."
Then there's this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f5/Bush-horns.jpg/200px-Bush-horns.jpg
I think it has something to do with some sort of collegiate recreational team or something, but I prefer to just appreciate for what it is: our Presmonkey throwin' the horns.
Wow, that sounds almost Wayne's World-ian, as in: "This band totally throws goats!"
SPECIAL REPORT: Trent is a satanist. I keep meaning to wave hello to people when I'm on location, but I always wind up flipping them off by mistake.
Trent, are you new? IT IS NEVER WRONG TO ROCK or RAWK. It doesn't matter where you are or what you are listening to. If people need to throw up the horns, that's what they need to do. Personally I like it when the horns don't really fir. If it's a down temp band or a pop band and some dude rocks the horns, I think the show is upped.
Also - Notice the guy from Holland. He rocks the horns with one hand and in the other, he's got a beer and a smoke. He's a multi tasking Euro rocker. I think he has the right to throw up the horns, even though it is country western.
In #5 I meant, "I like it when the horns don't really fit" not fir.
It's always wrong to throw up the horns when the band is NOT rocking...and having never been to a widespread panic show i can't say for sure but my gut instinct definitely tells me they do NOT rock in any sort of way. BTW, didn't George Clinton invent the rock horns?
@8--you might be right about clinton.
I bet those Widespread Panic fans would say that Widespread does rock. However, Southern rock is different than Ronnie James Dio's rock.
Found this :
"Dio was not the first rock musician to raise the horns high. It’s not the devil’s sign to everyone. It is also the password to the Mothership, the P-Funk juggernaut first launched at the beginning of the ’70s. George Clinton and Bootsy Collins have been trading the “P-Funk sign” ever since, a kind of sci-fi-funk interpretation of the old Vulcan “live long and prosper” greeting from Star Trek’s Mr. Spock."
from "ODYSSEY OF THE DEVIL HORNS" -
http://www.whattherock.com/
Rock horns and digital cameras: it is time to ban both from rock shows.
You are all wrong. I invented the rock hand signal. In
Rock horns are definitely a salute to satan. What the fuck??
Jesus Christ thrfew up the horns?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/08/04
What can I say? Jesus is fucking metal.
Widespread can take the horns. Are you kidding? It is time for Trent to take an Athens tour of horns and bring us all the latest and greatest southern rock and what's new at the zoo.
Tante
#5: Exactly. There is NEVER a time when it is not okay to throw the horns. Rawk!
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