what a horribly bleak world i live in

haha Im in grade 7 right now.....last year these stupid assholes were on patrol to do the stupid cd player for a party I handed over some Red Hot Chili Pepper music and they rejected it calling gay and stuff. They all remained listening to boy-bands...the only rock they played was Linkin Park :(

[Edited by rockinfreak09 on 10-05-2002 at 10:35 PM]

London?? Sorry, i'm from near manchester (the UK one) an theres loads of good music fans up here, but i've been down souh an its full of trendies...

We should all make more guitar, bass or drum playin' friends. They seem to know what good music is.

Ponyone, you are wrong man. I'm in grade 10 now and rap still rules over rock at my "Catholic" private school that I go to. Although there are a few rock lovers, most of them are death metal goths, which I can't get into.

It doesn't matter what school I go to man. I know people from every school and its all about rap and techno. I can take some techno like the Chemical Brothers, but that is about it. I'm thinking about doing a gig at my school to make people realize what good music is.

Originally posted by PonyOne
Even if rap is just telling a storyline over a simple beat, there are some poets whose poems are musical without singing. Alan Gisberg's "Howl" comes to mind. Even if not musical, listen to the feeling envoked from hearing a holocaust survivor speak of the facets of the human soul, and then compare that to Blink 182's "What's My Age Again?"

LOL!!!!

Today at the gym, a guy came and took out Metallicas Black Album and put in 2Pac. I thought my self damn, but then California Love came and I was like O.K. But than came a guy and put in Korn and I was like, oh-no I gotta get out of here.

Now I´m just a begginer at the gym whos lifting about 5 kg our so and I ain´t got the guts to tell a guy who like 2 times bigger than me, back of dud it´s time for my music but as soon i get big I´ll play Dream Theater all day long. But than again I´ll never get big ´cause I don´t think that too much muscels is cool.

There´s now doubt that raps lyrics are amazing but most of them based on same thing-Rough Street Life wich gets boring in the length. But still they are OK.

PS. Body Counts lyrics by Ice T are very very fun. Just listen to songs like KKK Bitch. So fun but still so true and real.

[Edited by Dejan Sajinovic on 10-07-2002 at 12:18 PM]

I make people relize what good music is. What little guitar people do hear in music is all rhythm, so I just go back to the lost art of lead guitar and blow there minds. There like, "Wow, what song is that?" I'm like "I just made it up."
I used to think there was a whole lot to fancy playing, but they're really isn't. I'm surpised most guitarist dont play more lead anyway. It impresses people more, doesn't it?

Mattias is not only shredder. He has hell of more music in himself than any guitarplayer out there incl. Vai. But you should see him live. He´s so good that it hurts. I saw him at Sweden Rock Festival (amazing festival wich is evry summer. I have seen it now 3 years in row and it´s only like 1 hour driving from my town) a he sang while he played some amazing stuff and that was very impressive. Evrything sounded so damn perfect. Than once he had this 12 year old kid Johan Randen who was almost as good as he was and it was really sick.

Buy his CD Freak Guitar. Lots of crazy stuff including his jazz verision of Kiss´ Detroit Rock City.

Here are my two pennies worth.
I jam pretty much every night in my hometown of marseille, France. I'm a respected blues guitarist/ music teacher, and I'm usually able to sit with the local bands and jam with them because at some point, I have taught the guitarist that's in the band.
There are at least 5/6 bassist in my town that have the chops of the late great Jaco Pastorius, a good dozen guitarists that have enough taste and touch to play blues like some of the greats, around 5/6 guitarists that would make Yngwie (or Ia, or Ron Thal) blush etc...
But while all of those guys wait for is their solo spot, I usually sit in and make the groove work. I play the solo if the singer or the guy who's in charge of the song/jam points at me and asks me to play one. I can play the bass (I usually do that since those damn guitarists won't play a "sub-6 strings" instrument) and I can pretty much play any James Brown song, any Jimi's song, most of the blues standards etc... And guess what, while other guitarists keep switching during the jam, I'm the one that sits the whole time, finally becoming the "official guitarist" of some of the jams I go to. And this, without ever having the spotlight on me.
While us, guitarists, worry about chops, the audience wants a groove to dance to, and if you can't deliver that, you can have as much chops as you want, you're not an accomplished musician... That's my opinion.

I once had to lay down the groove, not worry about chops and fancy licks, but the thing was, I couldn't play them!

You could'nt play the groove or the licks?

I could play the groove, but not the licks. Not to worry, now I'm lickin' like crazy. (Sorry if that sounds funny)