I'm am in no way, a professional. Honestly, I'm just looking for people to play covers with; smoke some and shoot the shit. I'm into all kinds of stuff, but I'm mostly interested in nostalgic 90's alt rock, Metallica of all gens, Coheed and Cambria, and I even finger pick a bit of Fleetwood Mac or Rush from time to time. HMU
Sadly, in the world of music, I'm not much more than a mimic. I live under the philosophy that everything that can be said, HAS been said, and probably far better than I could manage to word it. When I try to find a clever or creative way in which to express how I feel, I'm never at a loss through the history of music that exists, so I find what matches what I feel, and play that instead. I'd like to learn to play a bit more with others though; expand a little more.
My simple dream is to play in some crappy local 90's cover band. I wouldn't mind helping to create original music at some point.
It would be nice to dial back the tide of self-interest and greed. If people didn't have to worry about homelessness or starvation, I believe that social interactions would not only be more voluntary but of a far better quality as well.
Greg and Steve: We all live together. I recall this song from Kindergarten; the impact of zooming out from our selves to our shared physical space really had a massive impact on me from such an early age. "We live in a house in a neighborhood, the neighborhood is part of the city, the city's in a county and the county's in a state, a part of the USA. The USA is a good ol' place, but it's still just a part of a place called Earth. The good ol' Earth is out in space, a part of the Universe". I wish we call could understand this to our core from so early on... I think it would help to mitigate this sickness of greed a majority of us seem to be under.
Depends on my mood; I'm all over the place. If I'm feeling like cruising, driving, walking, skating, or living in music, it tends to be alt 90's rock or grunge; QotSA, Foo Fighters, Gin Blossoms, STP. If I'm feeling strong, or tested, anxious or excited, I tend more towards 80's/90's rap or Metal. Huge fan of Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, D12, Mob Deep. On the Metal side it's Metallica, Pantera, Skeletonwitch, Arsis, GWAR, and so on. That's not to say I don't listen to strange stuff, or soft stuff too. I like Don McLean, Weird Al, Corky and the Juice Pigs, Sarah McLochlan, Peter Gabriel, Rick Springfield, Flight of the Concords. Seriously though, it's subjective, and I'm down to listen to pretty much anything, so long as I'm in the mood to receive it.
My own emotions. I can't say that I MAKE music, so much as I express what I feel through what songs I know. Sometimes I'll learn riffs just because I get the impression I CAN from listening to them ^_^.
Depends on the song. Most songs I store away are actually quite sad, and lightly seasoned with heartache. Other songs I tend to play are more about self determination, worth, and trying to get back to center; to shore up the damage done against our own integrity.
Scared.As.Fook. For whatever reason, playing in front of other people gives me the impression that I'm showing more of myself than I intend. To mess up at all throws me so hard off my game that I just can't bring myself to believe that the audience is still "with" me. Even thinking of people around as I play, elevates my heart rate.
This is difficult because it means to generalize my consideration of "musicians' reality". I think some musicians are able to play in front of other people just fine due to upbringing or environment. Other artists have the option to stick to production considering our online media outlets. I think the more that you interact with the world around you, the more likely your music can be absorbed by an audience. However, I can imagine that trying to make a living from something as fragile as art, can be quite scary. Can one ever really adjust to the notion that their artistic worldview is worth it? Being an artist is to struggle daily with living in existential "bad faith", as their financial worth is supported only by "the public gaze" as it were. That is, if you're alright with being considered worth your art because the general public buys into you, are you as comfortable with being ostracized by the same subjective consideration? If you're "good" because they agree you are, are you then "terrible" or "un-redeemable" by the same consensus?
Don't know, haven't really used it yet. Get back to me on this in a few months?
I feel like the lack of actual suffering in most everyone's life is effecting the quality of our music. What frustrates me most is that I don't really feel like I have anything original to say, or at very least no where near as salient to the more trying times of our human history. Things aren't "so bad" for me that I NEED to express them by way of music, and as stated prior, for any emotion I might consider making into a song, has already been so well by someone else, that I feel like I couldn't make the point any better myself.
Can't say I do. If I happen to catch a show while I'm out and about, I clap my hands red for those who I feel are really trying to share themselves. Besides, they've got bigger balls than me if they're willing to play in front of a crowd, even if they ARE just eating or hanging out.
I don't think that's how music should work. So long as an audience is willing to hear a person/group, AND considering that the musician/group care to be heard by "a larger audience" then everything should be fine. Some people hit the scene only to add a verse or two, take a bow, and never return (think Spirit in the Sky). No, I don't think creating a generalization of action to get to bigger audiences is a recipe to give a concise track to artists who shouldn't know, while blocking artists who shouldn't have to worry about it.
I don't know what you do or don't know, but I'll try: Japandroids Sarah Jaffe Propagandhi Coheed and Cambria Toad and the Wet Sprocket