General Music Chat

... that the only bands trying to form in my area are all classic rock cover bands? wtf.

Are there any clubs in your area that support and even encourage original bands? That seems to be the trouble with lots of places. Some clubs insist on cover tunes. Most want classic rock or country with a few blues thrown in for good measure. Got any of your songs you can put up for us to listen to?

It's what sells to the "bars" crowd.

It's what sells to the "bars" crowd.

you can only buy what's put on the shelves!


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"putting your head in a hole means you left your ass is in the air"

A comeback?

I don't know really but like all things music swings between future and past. What is the area like? Rural, farmers, older people, Young Scallions!? That will largely dictate who the audience will be.

... that the only bands trying to form in my area are all classic rock cover bands? wtf.

well if you're demograph is anything like mine (I live in a burned out industrial area myself cept we have tourism) then your best bet is to get into a jam band (kinda 70's punk with 90's grunge blended) and deal with covers but throw in more then a few modern tunes that are suited to classic rockers, plus a few staples and throw one or two originals in at the end of the set, I've seen that work around here

Great post Ted.

I think that's on the nail. Treat it like you want it to be and look at the people around you in a bar where there is live music in as many places as you can.

I think THE JAM are brilliant but then I would. Clever bunch of people and always in sync. And now........... I feel a punk urge a'comin on

Good luck with it anywho.

well if you're demograph is anything like mine (I live in a burned out industrial area myself cept we have tourism) then your best bet is to get into a jam band (kinda 70's punk with 90's grunge blended) and deal with covers but throw in more then a few modern tunes that are suited to classic rockers, plus a few staples and throw one or two originals in at the end of the set, I've seen that work around here

I've been doing classic rock covers for a long time around here, but in the late 90's, I joined a band some friends were putting together to do a lot of new stuff. I was having a blast, but everywhere we played, someone would come up to me and say, "I don't like this new band of yours. You should play the stuff you used to play." Some people just don't want anything new.

I've been doing classic rock covers for a long time around here, but in the late 90's, I joined a band some friends were putting together to do a lot of new stuff. I was having a blast, but everywhere we played, someone would come up to me and say, "I don't like this new band of yours. You should play the stuff you used to play." Some people just don't want anything new.

you just cant account for poor taste!
The music now IMO is so formatted that there just aren't the dynamics in them for live performance like the older one's. I know most of the acts I see on TV (late night talk shows/SNL/Austin city limits) just plain bore me to tears! I love new music but it is rare that I find any quality tunes, much less bands nowadays. BTW my last quality finds were System of a Down and Johny Neal (former keyboardist & writer w/The Allman Brothers)

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"putting your head in a hole means you left your ass is in the air"

wow Hayden, you sure are generous giving system of a down some credit, I can say they've gotten better over their career, check out Trivium their cd's Shogun and The Crusade might be tolerable to you

I know this is probably gonna tick some of you guy's off but the reason classic rock is so prefered by the puplic is because it has more melody than today's music and in most cases the singers actually sing, the guitar solo's require more expertise to perform and the songs are just flat more interesting. for quite sometime the public has been dumbing down as to what kind of music they prefer and frankly they are tired of it. Three chord songs with screaming and no melody or a rapper talking street trash in a monotone voice with a drum machine not much talent required for that IMO. A friend just took his daughter to a concert she wanted to go see and he said they only played power major chords and screamed thru the entire conert and didn't sing one note. That same friends son is learning guitar (15 years old) and he is learning songs like Green Grass And High Tides, Eruption, Jenny (867-5309) and my friend asked his son why are you learning thoise classic rock songs and he said the songs that are coming out today suck the classic songs are better, that came out of the mouth of a 15 year old.

I know this is probably gonna tick some of you guy's off but the reason classic rock is so prefered by the puplic is because it has more melody than today's music and in most cases the singers actually sing, the guitar solo's require more expertise to perform and the songs are just flat more interesting.

I agree with that as far as what you hear on the radio and tv, but there IS some good music out there, it's just few and far between. Lots of good indie bands out there doing music the way it should be, but we know the media bows to the major labels, not indie.

yes they do! I just don't understand how they went from signing original artistic acts to generic sounds like everybody else bands? They cut their own throats by doing so IMO! If you like one kind of format, you now have 400 bands that all sound just the way you expect em too.... how fukn boring is that?

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"putting your head in a hole means you left your ass is in the air"

My parents thought my favorite music when I was a teenager (Black Sabbath, Queen, Jethro Tull, etc.)was "dumbed down" from what they liked when they were young. I agree that classic rock is more melodic than the bulk of what is currently popular today. But that doesn't make it better than what is popular today, just different. It's all a matter of personal taste. Getting back to the original post by theansweris42X I would say pursue your own dream. It may take longer to form the kind of band you want but stick to what you want and don't give up...

If there's ever a concert you should go see, make it this one. And for one reason only. The amount of hot chicks that will fill the building is astounding. I have never seen so many hot chicks of all ages, even 40 somethings, at a concert in my life. The amount of tops taken off (along with other garments) during this song blew me away.

It sounded a lot like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjTpPiXgWRg

The girls went absolutely nuts for this song.