General Music Chat

My producer was telling me about when she did a project for a group called New Grass Revival. They were controversial back in the day...the first electric bluegrass band. Anyway, they had a banjo player by the name of Bela Fleck.

So their label wanted her to produce a country cross-over project on them. It started going up the charts but Bela did not want to be mainstream or country. So he told them that if the record ever became a hit he was going to leave to start a jazz banjo project.

The band laughed...

I always thought rock n roll was named after the sex act.. and why hordes of legitimate preachers in the 1950's condemned it as devil music.. since the devil and the sex act has some relation to Eve eating the apple.. Adam would have been ok if his rib was not removed to make a sex partner..

I didn't become a musician so I could learn to play what other folks played - nor to play how they wanted me to play. Genres? Who really cares?

Actually a lot of folks do. But I don't.

I often say that songs drop out of my head - that's how it feels. So what I am to say 'oh no - I don't want that song - it ain't pure enough.'

I'm kind of a metal head but I wrote a country song for a guy recently.

Hope I don't get arrested...

Talbot

I'm willing to change this dumb post. Just me talking out the wrong end of my anatomy!

'Heavy metal country' - examples, please. OP's profile has no audio samples.

Big and Rich.

Save a Horse is the 'missippi queen' precursor to the next thing.

That florida / kentucky straight line, or whatever the hell they are called, is nothing more than "Modern Rock Country".

i heard something about metal

so i rushed over

That florida / kentucky straight line, or whatever the hell they are called, is nothing more than "Modern Rock Country".

Yeah, but if you see the Florida Georgia Line videos, you see what I always assumed. They're just standing there, acting like rappers. I had the misfortune of hearing this tripe at my chiropractor's office. These guys have no intention of following in the tradition of most of their predecessors (standing still, strumming an acoustic guitar. Such fakers. Songs about truck/ drinking beer/ going down to the river.........

I think ultimately music is going to head this direction where there is no black and white line separating the genres.

I remember a time where someone who was into rap and someone who was into metal would not want to even be in the same room with each other. but my generation for example doesn't mind listening to either or and on a technical level there's lots of similarities making a lot of genres easily blended.

if you take the tech music out of a modern day hip hop beat. it's basically a metalcore breakdown. which is why the Pop Goes punk CDs are actually pretty big. nobody will admit it though.

personally I believe that the days of being considered strictly 1 Music category are coming to an end because people are gaining a greater appreciation of different types of music so of course these mixed music genres do pretty well.

people love talking sh*t about them but they keep coming out so somebody's listening.

I think ultimately music is going to head this direction where there is no black and white line separating the genres.

well, to my ears most current day Top 40 Nascar Pop "Country Music" is a great example of "country" morphing w really bad 80's pop music. the only thing worse is when they try to toss in a few lines in rap style....singing every note right on the beat ( or a little before).....man, does it get any more whitebread than that????

when i hear these current top 40 country tunes.....if you removed the (put on) twangy vocals singing the usual obligatory and tired cliches of "sitting on my tailgate w my honey w a couple of cold ones" , "...cos that's how we do it in the country"....."cos' mama raised us right and we all like to go down to the swimmin' hole for a little skinny dippin' on saturday nights" you'd think you're just listening to bad '80's AM radio pop tunes.

In the early 80s I hooked up with a touring country artist named Buck Trent. In that band there were only two guys who actually listened to country music, the bassist and drummer. It seemed that most musicians I met in that world were rockers who just wanted a better paying gig. There was little doubt in my mind that this would be the easiest path to financial musical success...and many rockers were taking that path, but I was losing my self-respect and quit C&W after a year. From then on my rock guitar solos always had a twang to them.....ughh.

But now I've got a project coming out in November that has a couple of songs (in my BM profile) that I consider Elvis-style rockabilly on it, but it sounds more authentic country that what is being played on the C&W radio today (imho)

So if heavy metal country is what you like, there is probably an audience somewhere who would like it also. Go for it.

I think ultimately music is going to head this direction where there is no black and white line separating the genres.

I remember a time where someone who was into rap and someone who was into metal would not want to even be in the same room with each other. but my generation for example doesn't mind listening to either or and on a technical level there's lots of similarities making a lot of genres easily blended.

if you take the tech music out of a modern day hip hop beat. it's basically a metalcore breakdown. which is why the Pop Goes punk CDs are actually pretty big. nobody will admit it though.

personally I believe that the days of being considered strictly 1 Music category are coming to an end because people are gaining a greater appreciation of different types of music so of course these mixed music genres do pretty well.

people love talking sh*t about them but they keep coming out so somebody's listening.

I completely agree with you on all points. I listen to music from every genre that I can think of, off the top of my head. The problem is that the "lowest common denominator" style of Top-40 radio is compacting everything into one heavily compressed, completely insipid sound. I listened to fm radio last week for the first time in years. Everything sounded the same. So called "Alternative" stations play really bad R & B (that's R & B as in the last fifteen years or so, not back when there was only a slight difference between the Stones and Stax, the Beatles and Motown). I listened to Hip Hop, Country, Alternative, Spanish, maybe more. It all had the same bass sound. Yuck! It all sounded like it was being fed into a blender for mass consumption by morons. That's exactly where this is heading. It's a decision made on Wall Street.

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