General Music Chat

I can understand Klugmo's position.
Hell, we even cover that song on occasion and I did not recognize it untill nearly a minute in.

The jam was great. But it does not fit the mood of the song.

We worked on ALL THAT REALLY MATTERS for a couple of years playing it differently. One evening I suggested to Ray to play it as if he had just got home from work at the end of the week, was really tired sitting out on the back porch having a beer.

So it went from heavy rock to the slow blues and eventually the moderate rock tempo & feel we play it in now. Hence the blues scale solo riffs I added latter.

I tend to agree with KLUGMO on this, but then, I'm kind of a purist, too. I enjoyed the performance, but got nothing from the lyrical content. As a writer, it's an obsession.
Britney Spears can dance and shake her a$$, but lyrically, its all pretty moronic. As an educated consumer, I feel like someone's trying to pull a fast one (not so much with these guys, but in the case of most pop music, yes).
I freely admit to being ANAL! That being said, I don't believe in "lesser" parts of songwriting. Everything is important-if not for marketing, than at least for "artistic integrity".

Wow. What a elitist I must be.

I think if I could understand the lyrics, I would agree with the concensus that they probably fit the style. This seems, however, to be much more about the image han anything. Well done, but doesn't appeal to me on any deeper level than being some bouncy muzak that sticks in my head while I'm washing dishes or something...which reminds me...I have to go wash dishes now.

Wow someone has my back. I'm not used to that.
j6 you expressed that very well.
If I say chasing cars which band do you think of now?
Rockabilly or Snow Patrol? Which version do you
hear in your head? I would bet on SP.
Because it is done as the writer intended AND you
hear the words and expression in them.
You absorb the whole thing.

Do you like cherries or cherry flavoring?

EXCUSE ME, SANS YOU HAVE HAD MY BACK BEFORE

We write differently then, and for different reasons.

When you get right down to it are these guys MAKING MONEY playing music? You are free to critique anybody you want, but in the end $$$ talks and B.S. walks. If you don't like something for any reason turn it off. That's basically what I do. Maybe even more important to this, I wonder what the original artist thinks of this version?

I wonder too bob.

If I wrote that song I would just shake my head.
The message and mood of the song is completely
obliterated with the theatrics of that style of play.
Sure they're good but that song wasn't ment for that style.
In watching it, it's all about performance.

This is a writers view point.

I agree.

IMO it works better if you take happy & uptempo and turn it into sad & slow.
That can be cool.

I have to laugh.

I think HAPPY + UPTEMPO comes natural for some, while SLOW and SAD comes natural for myself and others.

Weird world we live in.. it might be the water.

Hey Cap,
Some do both equally as well.
My Profile "I AM" -- "Far Beyond The Moon"

Sorry for self strokeing.

How is that a self-stroke>?

You just mention that you can do both..

no blood, no foul.

Lot of talented people here and sometimes
if I pat myself, it feels wrong.

Just don't believe your own hype and you won't let your head swell so hard that you can't get through the door.


The one thing that irks me more than anything else is a musician that compliments himself or herself to the point that the ego is over inflated.
I think if Shakespeare wasn't well known, that'd be the real meaning behind the phrase "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING".

i.e. You are only as good as your last show and chances are they didn't like it as much as YOU did.

Let the world compliment you and don't fish for em, as you'd be using the wrong bait.