Originally Posted by wreck
I dont know man, I think John Frusciante is pretty decent.. He just has his own style.

And that is part of the charm of rock music.

Many great rock drummers don't play well from a technical standpoint, but once you try to replace them with a technically perfect drum machine...or if you dare beat doctor John Bonham

I'll let the technical aspects of music playing get beat to death by the classical crowd.

I hear Malcolm Young once say something to the effect of "we have been playing the same damn song for 30 years, it's a good song.... but it is the same song".



He is right, it is a pretty damn good song they have been playing, same with ZZ Top.

Are you sure you're not a music critic time transported from 1964 writing about that new damn Beatles rock band??

Far be it from me to correct someone's spelling on a board like this (I find it a bit pretentious) but if your going to be a dick - get it right.

LOL..... no... he used it correctly. Geez.... have we really stooped to this level? Lets move on.



-s0nguy

..and the stones.

LOL... Pardon me, but look at the first sentence in your quote. The one that begins "Now if your half the intellect...." I'm sorry, but it's supposed to be... Aw...forget it... Haha...


No, wait... I understand that people will make spelling errors, but confusing "your" and "you're" bugs me....

Its thuh litle nuanses thet helps uss understan won anuther beter. Thuh devels in thuh detales.... peas

OK... I'll move on. But your wrong... HAHAHAHA!!!!

OK... I feel bad, now. Sorry, it's been a long year of teaching lazy students who think that music is a walk in the park. And then I get grief because they do so badly on their exams. "You set too high a standard, man."

I apologize kats. It's the "fedupedness" speaking.

Hans Christian Andersen was dyslexic. Has nothing to do with mental laziness.

I'm pathetic at math but will pick up a new language in an afternoon.....

Roughly speaking .

Yeah, I know. So was General Patton, John F. Kennedy, Edison, Einstein and Cher. Lots more... Ergo the apology. Not to say kats has dyslexia....

So! How 'bout them Chile Peppers! I, for one, prefer jalapenos...

So what?
Madonna is all over the place.
So is Brittany Spears.

They both suck, in this case literally.

Well I suppose you are right.
They can certainly play well, but their music is boring.
Talking about the Peppers is kind of like "The Kings New Clothes". IOW nobody really wants to admit what they really think about the band because it is kind of like herasey,

Elvis Costello is another one that fits into that mold.
I find him boring..

Sure he's done a lot of different things, but how many of them are actually worth listening to?

Counting Crows and Nirvana are another two...
Innovative?
Yes...
Responsible for starting a craze (grunge/Nirvana) yes...
A part of history?
Yes....

But.....

Do YOU want to listen to 12 tracks in a row by either one of them?
I don't.
The songs all sound the same.


I dunno, maybe it's a guitar thing (I'm a keyboard player) but I find the music extremely boring, which prompts me to filter out whatever lyrics might be grunted.

I wonder how many musicians are dyslexic? Does the dyslexic brain have the same trouble reading music as it does columnar mathmatical formulas?

What about dysgraphia - would you flip a note backwards? Interesting...

2 of my 3 daughters are dyslexic, each of my cousins who have kids have at keast one dyslexic child... dyslexia doesn't run in my family, it gallops!!

Don't know where it's all coming from. My girls have learned to compensate. One of them is a dancer, they start their count at 5. Doesn't seem to be a problem except in math, yet she's a straight A student. Very strange.

So of course I got the bumper sticker that reads "Dyslexics of the world, Untie!"

-lig

Muthafugga you got me on that one HAHAHAHA but wait.... here's what you originally were being a smartass about:


Are you saying I'm supposed to say "go ahead and hit you are spell check button"

So um, who's right? heh

Don't let your lazy ass students read this thread, they might find out your human. And that's my point. The poster I was responding to (before you spell checked me) was replying to me like I was a child, I didn't appreciate it.

Anyhow we're even -....................but I was right first

No....my original comment was about the one I quoted. Look at my first post 18 or so back.... Nah nah nah NAH boo boo!!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! And for the record, I AM human. I am ALWAYS going in to edit my own spelling/grammatical errors.

I hate teaching..... today. But fukk me if I'm not one of the most engaged and dedicated college profs out there. But hey, IT'S FESTIVAL SEASON!!!! Hitting the road, soon. And if my stupid java worked, there would be a ****eload of bouncy green thingies on this post.

You may be a good speller, but your<-----oops a bad bull****ter

And one more thing.....

I've gone slightly off topic before, but this one is a doozy!! Hmmm.... Maybe I can even kill it if I try a little harder....

I like Flea's little break on Ms. Morrisette's "I want you to know"....

Haha!! Oh, by the way, when you begin a sentence with an adverbial clause as you did in our disputed quote, use a comma. "Now, if your half the intellect...." not, "Now if your half the intellect...."

Still off topic but kind of on....Weren't the Sgt. Chile Peppers junkies???

I listened to both songs. I haven't worked out the parts on guitar; however, besides the verse groove and an Indiana reference or two I don't see what the fuss is. What the Chili Pepper's did was write a rather generic rock and roll song, not rip off Petty

Hey, here in Nashvegas I'm almost reluctant to pitch a new song from our publishing catalog that contains a unique idea or twist. I've had to sit back and watch meghit writers come out with remarkably similar material including unusual lines in the same parts of a song with a title similar to ours. I know many "insiders" were exposed to our songs as they were "on hold" for major artists. It could be coincidence, but then again maybe it's not. You can copyright 8 notes of a melody and also the "expression" of an idea, but not the idea itself. I've heard of publishers that throw a CD in front of some staff writers and ask them to "write me something like this". It's a little disheartening when you try to play nice...


bill

www.warnerworks.net

Great comparison

I don't think there is any band that is at the level where someone might feel you can't say anything bad about them, with the possible exception of the Beatles.

I can think of at least six criticisms of the Peppers, and like you, I'm a keyboard player. The most glaring one has already been mentioned a few times in this thread -- they've kind of been recycling material for ten years.

Is innovative a requirement of good music, or music that doesn't suck?

I definitely feel you on that -- by the time "Hanginaround" finally ends, I feel like I have listened to 12 tracks in a row. But other times I dig it.

Regardless, I don't think any of those bands suck. It's a matter of taste. Or maybe just a matter of etiquette and respect.

I feel confident that had you produced the last Elvis Costello record, you would have listened to all of it 10,000 times, fallen in and out of love 200 times, but at all times convinced that it did not suck.

How do you think an artist even gets to the point where he's making his 20th record, or 5th, and trying to figure out how to do something fresh? As a rule, he doesn't get there by sucking.

But that's just what everyone thinks whenever they're not into a particular style. For the thousands or millions or are into it, they're revelling in whatever mode or subgenre the artist is hitting on.

I've heard people say that about dozens of artists and entire genres -- blues and dance and country in particular. In every case, I find as a musician that if "it all sounds the same," I just haven't gone deep enough yet.

JSL

Your sig. says you are from Norway. Is english "you're" first language?

That is such a common progression and groove. There are only 12 notes in the western scale and only 7 in a diatonic scale and only 5 in a pentatonic scale. You run out of possibilities pretty soon. It's not too far away from Sweet Home Alabama. A very common groove. I don't think so.

DJs with not a lot to do trying to find a way to market themselves.

Californication is still a good, perhaps GREAT album*. I'm NOT a RHCP endorserer - but their minimalism kinda attracts me. I have never heard them live - but...

Be well - Pär

*So is BSSM.

Hey! Some of us in Delaware are spending our time writing/recording/performing music. I actually never even heard of this station, it must be downstate.

Yes. I was born in Del Rio, Texas, raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Ludington, Michigan and New Orleans, Louisiana. I'm now living and breeding in Nesna, Norway.

I've already apologized to kats for any affront. So, what's "you're" point? heh

Kids, this is rock music. Everything has been done before. Get over it.