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Bands are Boring, Rock is Over
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Tom Hendricks
Nov 9, 2012, 10:29:49 AM11/9/12
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Why Bands are Boring and Rock is Over
This is a response I gave to a newsgroup discussion on rock:
Musicians that choose bands, are choosing safe music – music that doesn’t make waves, music bleached of all originality, traditional music, fill in the blanks. They are cowards, conservatives, and are striving to fit in, not stand out. Time to either drop rock and roll or go back to its roots and play it right. When we say no to bands we force musicians to be creative again, and force them to oppose corporate manufactured music. While every musician now is a super star, no one can get a hit. Why are you defending trendy, corporate, sound alike, bland, way over produced, badly played, advertising fodder that’s called rock?
[Want to know what the future of music will sound like when rock is over? Here post-bands* music now.]
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* Post Bands Music – its 3 things, a revolution against what rock/rap/country/pop have become, its back to early rock and roll’s simple honesty, directness, and passion with an emphasis on great SONGS, and it’s a music that includes all types of music from every place in the world.
(and It’s part of the overall art and media revolution).
This is a response I gave to a newsgroup discussion on rock:
Musicians that choose bands, are choosing safe music – music that doesn’t make waves, music bleached of all originality, traditional music, fill in the blanks. They are cowards, conservatives, and are striving to fit in, not stand out. Time to either drop rock and roll or go back to its roots and play it right. When we say no to bands we force musicians to be creative again, and force them to oppose corporate manufactured music. While every musician now is a super star, no one can get a hit. Why are you defending trendy, corporate, sound alike, bland, way over produced, badly played, advertising fodder that’s called rock?
[Want to know what the future of music will sound like when rock is over? Here post-bands* music now.]
———————–
* Post Bands Music – its 3 things, a revolution against what rock/rap/country/pop have become, its back to early rock and roll’s simple honesty, directness, and passion with an emphasis on great SONGS, and it’s a music that includes all types of music from every place in the world.
(and It’s part of the overall art and media revolution).
Gill Smith
Nov 10, 2012, 9:33:40 AM11/10/12
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I agree about post-bands
but not for the same reason, nor the same outcome
musicians no longer need saddle themselves with real drummers, real bassists
etc.
today you can do it all, better, from a computer
that makes DJs cutting edge
they can tailor extended audio tracks like modern symphonies
I certainly see a return to guys plonking away on guitars as the way ahead
a tradition largely kept alive by music stations who want live, limited
music to "perform" (how quaint!) in "studios"
--
http://www.gillsmith999.plus.com/
but not for the same reason, nor the same outcome
musicians no longer need saddle themselves with real drummers, real bassists
etc.
today you can do it all, better, from a computer
that makes DJs cutting edge
they can tailor extended audio tracks like modern symphonies
I certainly see a return to guys plonking away on guitars as the way ahead
a tradition largely kept alive by music stations who want live, limited
music to "perform" (how quaint!) in "studios"
--
http://www.gillsmith999.plus.com/
Gill Smith
Nov 10, 2012, 9:35:45 AM11/10/12
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> I certainly *DON'T* see a return to guys plonking away on guitars as the
> way ahead
--
http://www.gillsmith999.plus.com/
> way ahead
--
http://www.gillsmith999.plus.com/
Louise
Nov 10, 2012, 2:52:46 PM11/10/12
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Tom Hendricks <tom-he...@att.net> wrote in
news:66b8cbc4-46c7-41f2...@googlegroups.com:
I've recognized this Tragedy for quite some time and am actually Doing
something about it. I've just finished demo recording 12 totally new
totally Original tunes on my album; "Opening A Channel". My drummer
friend will be adding the drum tracks and from there, we're planning on
some very high quality demos and then going into the studio for a fully
polished final product. Rock & roll Desperately NEEDS a transfusion og
new blood, i.e. new Original material, in order to survive, and that's
precisely what we're working on.
Ouisie
news:66b8cbc4-46c7-41f2...@googlegroups.com:
something about it. I've just finished demo recording 12 totally new
totally Original tunes on my album; "Opening A Channel". My drummer
friend will be adding the drum tracks and from there, we're planning on
some very high quality demos and then going into the studio for a fully
polished final product. Rock & roll Desperately NEEDS a transfusion og
new blood, i.e. new Original material, in order to survive, and that's
precisely what we're working on.
Ouisie
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