Ok, so you don't give a damn about being popular or successful, so what are you bitching about? My view of what music should be is from the Consumer end of it...
That means you're only in it for the money and the social status that comes with it. Destroy your guitar and quit music forever.
not the self centered, egotistical musician side of things. Music is what People enjoy... not what musicians enjoy. Now it actually turns out, since most musicians are people... the stuff I like, and what the crowd likes is similar.
Why would you be a musician if you didn't enjoy it? Wouldn't you want to have fun and come up with new ways to do things to add to the excitement of being a musician? How do you know that people won't like something new?
You can play all of that junk and noise without other musicians, why aren't you out there doing it instead of in here trying to convince us we're all half wits because we are non inventive bands playing Guitar, bass and drums?
It's hard to find percussionists willing to walk away from a drum set and beat on scrap metal, nevermind an entire percussive ensemble beating on scrap metal. That, and I am poor and the only gear I have right now is a microkorg and a korg ea-1 bass synth.
Maybe its because you can't sell that crap. The market for non musical crap is loaded... hell the market for Musical CRAP is overloaded... but for the stuff your clucking about, there is a very limited market, and you want other folks to join you in being non popular?
Who cares about selling music? It's worthless, it's just VIBRATING AIR and nothing more. I just want to have fun and include others on having fun. I want to perform with my audience and have both of us going home thinking "This was a good experience, I'd like to do it again.".
Why don't you form a Throbbing Gristle Tribute band? Can that stuff be "covered"? CCR, ZZ Top, Dylan, Zepplin, ect, could all be covered by the Lawrence Welk band... could be replayed by people on non similar instruments because its actually musical. Y'know, that pesky 12 semitone thing that REAL musicians pay attention to and abide by?There is no such thing as a real musician. You are not special for dedicating years of your life to studying a device that makes sound based on the western tonal scale. Also, cover bands are sh*t.
If that is truly music, then why aren't more MUSICIANS Playing it? I'll tell you why, because that is SEQUENCING, its PROGRAMMING, its COMPOSITION... y'know, like taking GARBAGE and making ART out of it. Maybe you can call it art... but its not music.
Again, stop thinking that anything that eschews the western tonal system isn't music. Go listen to serialism or atonal stuff and try telling those composers that what they do is talentless.
Ahh, the old sellout routine, your right, I should toss my guitar and amp into the next dumpster I find and start beating on cars as a performance art.Yes, please do trash your guitar. You don't deserve it.
How about you can play any kind of crap you want to, unless you can get an AUDIENCE to stand still and enjoy it you are just making noise. You can even make noise with Bass, Guitar and Drums, but of course we have the artists you pointed out... that, Gee.... they're seeking an audience, well they must be sell outs. Trying to be popular... what were they thinking?If you noticed, there were some good sized crowds in each video I linked you too, all of them having fun (and in EN's case, participating in) at the show.
But dude... popularity sucks, why would they want a crowd to appreciate what they do? Its Art... they should walk off the stage in protest because people showed up. Did they also accept a recording contract... did they make money? Those pathetic fools, what were they thinking... now they too are just sell outs.
Having popularity is not a negative thing. Playing music as a means to become popular is, however. I want to play music and perform for people because it is fun, and it doesn't matter how large the crowd is. I'd perform a show for one person if it meant sharing good times with them.
