Grunt Rock by ‘Tomorrow is not a Promise’

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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 CORE 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!