General Music Chat

yeah i cant say im much of a jazz musician and i dont know what smoot is but if your into meduim warm tone in your pants than berklee is for yoU!!!!!

hahahaha that is the quote of the year! My time at berklee was kinda frustrating first I was in the piano dept and my teacher was definitely on coke every lesson... I swear I got nothing from him but funny stories to share. Now I dont mind playing jazz piano, but I'm talking slow ballad jazz, the kind played in smoky jazz bar with people chillin over a drink. All they were shoving down my throat were latin beats and as much as I respect the talented people who play that, you've gotta love a style of music to really play it with feeling. I ended up switching to voice which was alright, all voice instruction from a professional crosses over into any genre so it doesn't matter what they have you singing.

In response to people's comments on the boston scene....

Bands that have made it from the Boston/New England area.... of course James Taylor Aerosmith, The Cars, Boston, Rob Zombie, JGeils Band, Pixies, Staind, Godsmack, Powerman 5000, Dropkick Murphys, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, All That Remains, Darkbuster, Guster, Dispatch, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr, Buffalo Tom, Extreme, The Dresden Dolls, Til Tuesday, Big D & the Kids Table, Boys Like Girls...
yeah a bunch of those are older groups but it shows that the city has consistently been a musical hub over the last 30 years, that's not even including the hordes of Berklee people who've spent time there, or Rivers Cuomo of Weezer from CT, went to Berklee & Harvard.

(btw a Smoot is what the Mass Ave bridge is measured in... wiki it, funny story)

I always heard that Boston was a pretty musical town

Yea if you like the hippy emo scene with boys singing like girls. I checked it out. Actually flew there to audition for a band and that's exactly what I found. Everyone there told me that's exactly what the scene is. It's not happening. Really about the only decent band in the Boston or NH area is Break the Dark (that I've heard).

Another one of my BIGGEST pet peeves in music is boys singing like girls. Either you have balls or you don't. Either you have testosterone or you don't. If you're really a man why the hell do you want to sing like a girl? If so, go get a sex change operation. The first time I heard one of the BeeGees falsetto disco tunes I nearly put my fist through my car speaker. Are you a man, SING LIKE ONE...

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I always heard that Boston was a pretty musical town

Yea if you like the hippy emo scene with boys singing like girls. I checked it out. Actually flew there to audition for a band and that's exactly what I found. Everyone there told me that's exactly what the scene is. It's not happening. Really about the only decent band in the Boston or NH area is Break the Dark (that I've heard).

Another one of my BIGGEST pet peeves in music is boys singing like girls. Either you have balls or you don't. Either you have testosterone or you don't. If you're really a man why the hell do you want to sing like a girl? If so, go get a sex change operation. The first time I heard one of the BeeGees falsetto disco tunes I nearly put my fist through my car speaker. Are you a man, SING LIKE ONE...

Amen!

what about cher comming out and admiting that shes a man?