General Music Chat

Sorry, I promise not to discuss while I'm eating dinner again.

" Is this gentry typing?" Daaaaaammmitt Neanderpaul! Can't a person sneak in incognito and bug people anymore?

Your playing gave it away! You are too good to hide!

Geez - you guys are gonna have me in tears. For the love of pete - music has never sounded better! There are more innovative bands than you can shake a stick at. Whatever you do - if you are any good there is an audiance for it.

Try listening to old Hendrix jams (without getting stoned first) and you'll notice he was rarely even in tune. Most of the Beatles stuff - cute but big deal. (I excempt Revolver and Sgt Peppers from that).

Now listen to Iced Earth, Night Wish, Megadeth, Brandos et al. Don't tell me Music has gone artificial. I was just listening to Iron Maiden's Passchendale - what a wonderful world where can write heavy metal music that teaches history to the sad rejects of yankee public schools.

Its happening NOW. The sixties had one important thing that pop music has lost - each of the bands like Beatles, Doors, Stones, Airplane and so on were very distinctive in how they sounded. But switch the dial from top forty and put on a Nightwish tune - very recognizable, every time.

It's truly better now than it's ever been. Musicians these days stand on the shoulders of those sixties cats who themselves stood on the shoulders of the old fifties rock and rollers and blues guys. Your average guitarist now days is twice as good as he would have been back then, just from sucking in all that historical ambience.

And damn - we sure didn't have YouTube in the sixties.

Cheer up
Talbot

Damn Paul, I love your new stuff. You and Jimmy did a great job with Little Wing which is one of my favorite songs. Very nice guys!

The underground will never succumb to artificial music. Real Rock and Roll will never be filtered by electronic enhancements in a live setting. The over-use of technology will eventually fail. I think it will go out like acid washed denim.

Bands are already releasing LP's with download cards in them. Soon, the MP3 will be the alternative...not the future.

I'd like to see the son-of-a-bitch machine that replaces me.

I'd like to see the son-of-a-bitch machine that replaces me.

Look into the corner of most any bar Bob.
Some damn jukebox or a hundred big screen TVs all set on sports

There is little appreciation for music or musicians in the general populace.
And I believe crap like A.I. is making it worse.

Every other pin head in the world now thinks they can sing and are destined to be a " star " .

In my area if you don't sound like a hayseed you'll be damn lucky to get a gig at all.

In my area if you don't sound like a hayseed you'll be damn lucky to get a gig at all.

And just what exactly is a hayseed? Someone who has a different taste in music than you do? All musicians have their preferences, that doesn't make one any better than the other. I believe that is called personal choice. Evidently the "hayseeds" are working. No offense meant, just standing up for the hayseeds.

In my area if you don't sound like a hayseed you'll be damn lucky to get a gig at all.

And just what exactly is a hayseed? Someone who has a different taste in music than you do? All musicians have their preferences, that doesn't make one any better than the other. I believe that is called personal choice. Evidently the "hayseeds" are working. No offense meant, just standing up for the hayseeds.

No need to stand up for them ... my intent was not to put anyone down ... just to make a distinction.
One of our favorite "southern gospel" groups I consider "hayseed" or "country" if that term seems less offensive for you. We often play together and remain in constant contact.

The simple truth is, in my area crying in your beer music is king.
All other genre's take a back seat.


I don't get my panties in a wad when someone refers to us as headbangers, or a metal heads ... I wear it with pride.

You really need to stop banging your head sans.
You've knocked all the hair off it.

You really need to stop banging your head sans.
You've knocked all the hair off it.

The headboard took care of that long before I picked up a six string.

I have to agree with Klugmo's info and position.

If money remains the biggest influence on those who produce music, then anything that can save money will be used. The time may come when when 3D virtual orchestras, bands, groups, choirs, duos, singers, whatever will take the place of live humans for entertainment as technology keeps moving at an exponential pace. With the music will come technical feats of light and experience which will only cause people to cry out for more, just like the majority of movie goers today want more than was able to be seen a generation ago. Computers rule. Money rules. The two will win out, eventually. And the poor, live, human musician will possibly play on street corners for nostalgia's sake.

It may take decades, if mankind can keep from killing himself that long, but it will come.

Do you think the attitude that some in science have to create life is confined to just the physiological laboratory? No. Technology will continually lure humans into more and more human-less existence.

The issue might be the changing of humanity, more then the changing of music. Harden humanity, dry out humanity, techno humanity and changing how music is delivered would be rather easy.

Wow I'm not used to company in my opinion.

Interesting observation and supposition.
No doubt the "masses" will move in that direction.

Yet there are those few seekers ... the folks who want a 67 Chevelle with a 398 and dual four barrel carbs instead of some screaming high rev Jap drifter. ( makes my mouth water just thinking about it )
Or the guys and gals who shoot cowboy action instead of Glocks, or still have LP's and reel to reel.

Hendrix said tuning was for cowboys.