QUOTE (Ryan @ Jun 11 2007, 06:37 PM)
the reason there is no unqiue sound is because everybody has heros...AND THATS THE TRUTH..now let me explain why..its good to have heroes and want to be just like them..but thats the problem...you want to be JUST LIKE THEM....me personally i have no heroes..jsut people that i like..and that have a good unqiue sound...which the people that i have found that are unqiue..woudl be rusty cooley...Paul Gilbert..well thats all i can think of because a lot of Rockstars...arent all teh unqie either dont get me wrong or nohting..but ANDY TIMMONS KICKS MAJOR YEAAAAAA...but well he sounds so much like jimi hendrix especially in his song...Electric Gypsy...ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY..very good song..but but not unqiue......you kinda get what im saying...ahveing heroes is good..but is also bad.........if you really think about it..its true!!!!!!
I disagree. Having heroes is not a bad thing, because you can never sound exactly like them. If you try to sound exactly like someone, you're not being an artist, not being original etc, so yes if you do try to emulate someone that's bad, but then again I wouldn't consider you an artist either. Having heroes and trying to be like them is kind of an immature thing that you pick up as a kid and eventually grow out of, meaning you'll probably always love their music but you will grow up and realize that to be a real musician emulating them isn't good enough. So you'll take what they did and put your stamp on it (thats what I mean by growing out of it). Thereby you won't sound exactly like them. Most great musicians have been like that.
QUOTE (Kaneda @ Jun 11 2007, 06:40 PM)
Heh, it's funny (in a sad way) to read you discussing this. I guess when you say "this/our generation", you mean "teenagers in this decade"? (I have no idea about the age of people here).
Mainly funny in that sad way, because I've been complaining the same way about the music of the 00's (and also a lot about the teens of the 00's) for years.
And it makes me feel like some old, dusty relic (being a teen in the early nineties). Plus, I tell myself it might just be because I'm becoming settled like those annoying old folks in my teens. Maybe I just can't understand new music or teenage behaviour
I do think most new bands are generic. There's a Muse thread in another area of the forum, and Muse is probably the last "big" new band I became a fan of - that was in 1998. Since then, if I've really liked a new band, it'll be a small "local" band.
And that's probably it. Either the good stuff is just not appreciated anymore, as you say, so the good bands stay small. Or the culture is so varied by now - lots of subcultures - that any good band will never appeal to an entire generation.
Or postmodernism has reached its climax and "new" music can't do anything at all except appropriate from the music of the past. Or something big happens soon. Or I'm missing the point of this generation
I disagree once again! You're correct about our culture becoming more diverse and therefore we can't please everyone, but take a look at hendrix. Cited as one of the most influential musicians ever, he did revolutionize his generation. However there's plenty of people of that generation who do not like him, he didn't appeal to everyone. On the other side of the coin, he did reach across genre lines. I know a lot of guys into hip hop etc who revere hendrix too. So I think it's possible to cross genre boundaries. CCR topped the soul and rock charts simultaneously if I recall. I would also have to say there's been a fair amount of good bands to come about since the millenium.
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