jimmydanger wrote:No one said life was fair.
It should be no secret that rock is the preferred genre here, and that most rock musicians do not like country music. I myself had more respect for it when it wasn't trying to be rock's illegitimate step-child.
I'll ask again, have you ever said that you hated rap? Or any other genre? Don't lie.
That is a valid point. I remember when country lyrics weren't trying to be cutesy by using almost homophone lyrics and catch phrases. Neither was it all trying to have an old R&R flavor.
Now it is pretty much cookie cutter music. Someone gets a hit with the word kiss in it. All of a sudden there are 10 songs being played on the radio abut kissing. Score a hit with breath in the song, here come 10 more. But you can also say that about other styles of commercial music.
Most studio musicians are top drawer. I like fusion, I like jazz, I like rock. That is what I listen to. I'm stuck in a time warp. I liked Gentle Giant, Pass port, Pink Floyd and about any and every group that has it together. I even like some of what is being passed off as country music.
It's all music. As said before some we like some we don't. But when a person can't take something good from any music, that's a bad place to be.
In my opinion it was a bad judgment to call the new stuff country music, because it isn't. If you really want to hear country music, you have to go to the reservation gambling cassino's. There you will find George Jones and the rest of the people who made it in country music when it was still country music. They have been cut out of the loop for the sake of whiter teeth, by suits who don't give a crap about tradition, only the bottom line. They don't care what they destroy.
There is a lot of crappy R&R, there is a lot of crappy Blues, a lot of crappy "Country". But if you are a musician, and you do what good musicians do, (listen and learn) and you can hear really cool stuff in any of it. It just comes down to well performed music and poorly performed music.
When the suits at Crest demanded that radio stations re define country music and started passing off "whatever" as country music I didn't like it anymore. The fact is that country music was replaced to attract teenage girls so they could sell Crest White Strips.
I even like some "whatever", although in my spirit I resent it because of what it has done to traditional country music.
