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My band is respected by a bunch of morons

deja_vroom

12:11 / 25.09.01

I know how it sounds, it sounds like a fucking The Onion headline

...
I think the reason behind this phenomena because we sing in English, so all the Eddie Vedder/Korn lead singer wannabes that infest our music scene are attracted by the (scarce)riffs and the (abundant)noise.
How do you explain that a band who once played sporting t-shirts saying: "I HATE NU-METAL" are praised and admired by Nu-metal illiterate drones?
Why can't we get some cool fans?

I declare myself ready for all the shit this topic will make me get.

rizla mission

12:35 / 25.09.01

Maybe your guitars sound too expensive..

That seems to be the dominant trend amongst Korn-type bands .. they play tunes like feckin' monkeys but spend millions of $ getting the right Butch Vig crunch..

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:10 / 25.09.01

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Hey man! You knocking those Ibanez guitars? 'Cause they're real cool. Especially when I plug my seven-string into my practice amp... sounds just like the real thing!
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Not Here Still

18:29 / 25.09.01

[not sure if ironic or just dumb] Don't knock Ibanez guitars - especially the Steve Vai seven stringed one in psychedelic colours - that rocks! [not sure, etc etc]

I believe a dead man once sang:

He's the one,
Who likes all our pretty songs,
And he likes to sing along,
But he don't know what it means...

The Strobe

20:15 / 25.09.01

Yeah, Hohner Rockwoods and Rikter basses, crappy practice amps, and vocals stuck through a fuzz pedal.

And shellsuits.

The numetal crew will either a) run a mile, or b) all buy shellsuits and get lynched.

Problem solved.

Rothkoid - Ibanez may be bad, but Kramer (i think, guy down the hall from me last year had one, nasty gibsonrawk line) are FAR worse in terms of RAWK POWER!

/me sees a game of "guitar top trumps" emerging here...

The Return Of Rothkoid

09:09 / 26.09.01

No way, Paleface, dude. You can't beat an Ibanez plugged into a Peavey 15w practice amp set to the "crunch" setting! That's fuckin' RAWK. Especially if you put a TubeScreamer into that! RAWK!

...I'm so ashamed...

rizla mission

09:09 / 26.09.01

ha ha, yeah.

Or try and sound like early Wire - noisy 50 second songs about maths lessons sung in a slightly camp manner - that'll put the wind up 'em.

rizla mission

09:09 / 26.09.01

Oh, and be sure to remove all trace of angst from your music completely.

If they're one thing those wankers can't stand it's jaunty jangly cheerful-ness..

deja_vroom

11:09 / 26.09.01

stop talking about guitars. I don't even know mine's brand. I just have one pedal and I never touched the dials.
the nu-metal crew was only used in that context as my "abused majority" du jour. There are metallers who keep trying to headbang to CLEARLY slow, calm songs, and punks who try to pogo and hit each others faces in the middle of a trippy solo. It's pathethic, I know...

Oh, and that Nirvana line is just SO fitting. Thanks for making me remember.

Perfect Tommy

14:54 / 29.09.01

Hm. Add a cello -- or better yet, a clarinet. Or cover something inappropriate.

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop musik
Talk about, pop musik
Talk about, pop musik
Pop pop pop pop musik

Pin

20:04 / 29.09.01

Get a new pub to play in.

agapanthus

01:42 / 30.09.01

It sounds like your band are too cool to shake the 'morons' regardless of what you do. It's probably because someone in your band is an oozing sex volcano. Get rid of them !If it's you . . .well that's a different matter. Maybe if you got rid of the guitars and instead played accordians, or a five-piece slap-bass ensemble, or get a coupla tubas into the act. Why not use a jews harp for solos instead of guitar?

How did your 'last' gig go?

Ronald Thomas Clontle

03:42 / 30.09.01

quote:Originally posted by doubting thomas:

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop musik
Talk about, pop musik
Talk about, pop musik
Pop pop pop pop musik

You didn't happen to be giving U2 career advice circa 1997, were you?

oh, this has been a weird little pet peeve of mine since I was 13...

quote: He's the one,
Who likes all our pretty songs,
And he likes to sing along,
But he don't know what it means...

it's "he knows not what it means"...

The Return Of Rothkoid

10:42 / 30.09.01

quote:Originally posted by agapanthus:
Maybe if you got rid of the guitars and instead played accordians, or a five-piece slap-bass ensemble, or get a coupla tubas into the act. Why not use a jews harp for solos instead of guitar?But! But! That could be the best band ever!

Mock not the jews' harp solo, Ag. It's the one thing I'm proficient at...

[ 30-09-2001: Message edited by: Rothkoid ]

rizla mission

13:07 / 30.09.01

quote:

He's the one,
Who likes all our pretty songs,
And he likes to sing along,
But he knows not what it means...

There is no greater irony in the entire world than watching a room full of jocks sing along to those lines..

Our Lady of The Two Towers

07:57 / 01.10.01

Unless they're singing;

"We don't talk about love,
We only want to get drunk..."

rizla mission

10:18 / 01.10.01

And the fact that so many people use 'design for Life' as a completely non-ironic 'drinking anthem', well..

deletia

10:41 / 01.10.01

As opposed to possibly the most pompous, irony-untrammelled Welsh-answer-to-"Wind of Change" in the history of the world?

rizla mission

10:49 / 01.10.01

never siad I liked it

It's just kind of weird seeing lager louts embrace a song that begins "Librarys gave us power, then work came and made us free, what price now, for a simple piece of dignity?"

I mean, wouldn't you be more at home with Chas N Dave, lads?

deletia

10:57 / 01.10.01

My personal favourite remains the corporate grunge cover of "How Soon is Now" with all the clever bits cut out at the beginning of "Charmed".

bio k9

11:35 / 01.10.01

WHIP THAT DONKEYS ASS!
ROCK OVER LONDON
ROCK ON CHICAGO!
TIMEX TAKES A LICKING AND KEEPS ON TICKING!

Seth

17:45 / 01.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:
And the fact that so many people use 'design for Life' as a completely non-ironic 'drinking anthem', well..

"Part of that lyric has no irony in it at all. For a start, as a person, I've been in many a situation where I know not what to say but I know what to do, where I'm not articulate enough to make myself understood and, yeah, sometimes I do just wanna fucking get drunk, definitely and utterly, sometimes the most base reaction is the only one I've got. And those were the working-class considerations in that song."

- James Dean Bradfield

[ 01-10-2001: Message edited by: expressionless ]

Frances Farmer

19:55 / 02.10.01

quote:Originally posted by JB again:
[not sure if ironic or just dumb] Don't knock Ibanez guitars - especially the Steve Vai seven stringed one in psychedelic colours - that rocks! [not sure, etc etc]

I believe a dead man once sang:

He's the one,
Who likes all our pretty songs,
And he likes to sing along,
But he don't know what it means...

Actually, I think it goes :

"He's the one,
Who likes all our pretty songs
And he likes to sing along,
And he likes to shoot his gun,
But he knows not what it means,
He knows not what it means."

It's been quite a little while, though - but I'm sure about the 'shoot his gun' line.

That very same song also has the fantastic stanza, "Sell your kids for food / Weather changes moods / Spring is here again / Reproductive glands,"

rizla mission

12:51 / 03.10.01

I went around for years thinking that "reproductive glands" was "rape the duck again".

I mean, what am I like?

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